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Defenders of Brazilian coup mouthpieces banned from Twitter: is this equivalent censorship? Why or why not?


> It's called Doppelgänger because it uses typosquatted domains – sites with names that are close to legitimate ones - such as washingtonpost.pm rather than the real washingtonpost.com – to trick viewers into believing they are reading and watching


Getting rid of propaganda operations is a good thing for sovereignty. No idea what's going on in Brazil.


There is a judge in Brazil with broad authority to order removal of online content. He ordered Twitter to ban some accounts. Twitter refused. Twitter is now banned in Brazil.

The content of those accounts concerns election denial and political violence, so the cause has a certain fanbase in the US.




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