Posted on 04/07/2024 5:42:24 PM PDT by janetjanet998
Here's the order from Brazil's Supreme Court opening an investigation into Elon Musk for obstruction of justice.
The court is also imposing a daily fine of 100,000 Brazilian Real ($19,777) for every account X/Twitter refuses to block
so turn off Brazil
so turn off Brazil
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Rumble did that but only because the judge would have banned all of Rumbles cloud third party services in Brazil including Truth Social. They they just Turned off the Rumble.com portion instead of giving into censorship. They did the same thing in France because they didn’t censor RT like the French Demanded
Musk just posted links to VPN’s so if looks like he expects X to be blocked
I’m surprised Biden’s DOJ hasn’t found (or planted) something to charge him with.
https://twitter.com/shellenberger/status/1776776372351836642
Michael Shellenberger
@shellenberger
BRAZIL IS ON THE BRINK
I’m reporting to you from Brazil, where a dramatic series of events are underway.
At 5:52 pm Eastern Time, today, April 6, 2024, X corporation, formerly known as Twitter, announced that a Brazilian court had forced it to “block certain popular accounts in Brazil.”
Then, less than one hour later, the owner of X, @ElonMusk announced that X would defy the court’s order, and lift all restrictions.
“As a result,” said Musk, “we will probably lose all revenue in Brazil and have to shut down our office there. But principles matter more than profit.”
At any moment, Brazil’s Supreme Court could shut off all access to X/Twitter for the people of Brazil. It is not an exaggeration to say that Brazil is on the brink of dictatorship at the hands of a totalitarian Supreme Court Justice named Alexandre de Moraes.
President Lula da Silva is participating in the push toward totalitarianism. Since taking office, Lula has massively increased government funding of the mainstream news media, most of which are encouraging increased censorship.
What Lula and de Moraes are doing is an outrageous violation of Brazil’s constitution and the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights.
At this moment, Brazil is not yet a dictatorship. It still has elections and the Brazilian people have other means at their disposal to confront authoritarianism.
But the Federal Supreme Court and the Superior Electoral Court are directly interfere in those elections through censorship.
Three days ago I published the Twitter Files for Brazil. They show that Moraes has violated the Brazilian Constitution. Moraes illegally demanded that Twitter reveal private information about Twitter users who used hashtags he considered inappropriate. He demanded access to Twitter's internal data, violating the platform's policy. He censored, on his own initiative and without any respect for due process, posts on Twitter by parliamentarians from the Brazilian Congress. And Moraes tried to turn Twitter's content moderation policies into a weapon against supporters of then-president Jair Bolsonaro.
I say this as an independent and non-partisan journalist. I'm not a fan of either Bolsonaro or Trump. My political views are very moderate. But I know censorship when I see it.
The Twitter Files also revealed that Google, Facebook, Uber, WhatsApp and Instagram betrayed the people of Brazil. If such evidence is proven, the executives of these companies behaved like cowards: they provided the Brazilian government with personal registration data and telephone numbers without a court order and, therefore, violating the law. When Twitter refused to provide Brazilian authorities with private user information, including direct messages, the government attempted to sue Twitter's top Brazilian lawyer.
When I lived in Brazil in 1992, I was very left-wing. At the time, Lula and the PT's slogans were “Without fear of being happy”.
In recent days, I have spoken to dozens of Brazilians, including professors, journalists and respected lawyers. Everyone tells me they are shocked by what is happening. They told me that they are afraid to speak their mind and that the Lula government is complicit in creating this climate of fear.
Brazil belongs to the Brazilians. It is not my country. As such, there are limits to what I am capable of doing.
But I can say things that many Brazilians do not feel safe saying: Alexandre de Moraes is a tyrant. And the only way to deal with tyrants is to confront them. It is up to Brazil’s senators to confront the tyrant. And it is up to the people of Brazil to demand that their senators do so.
Aren’t dictatorships great, something the US has to look forward to unless people wake up, I hope so but I wouldn’t hold my breath.
For some background
Certain “right wing” influencers such as radio talk show hosts and even politications are blocked after the courts order last year
Musk said yesterday he was unblocking them
Posted this today
Elon Musk
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Coming shortly, 𝕏 will publish everything demanded by
@Alexandre
and how those requests violate Brazilian law.
This judge has brazenly and repeatedly betrayed the constitution and people of Brazil. He should resign or be impeached.
Shame
@Alexandre
, shame.
May I suggest a VPN?
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ALX 🇺🇸
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MORE: Brazil Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes accuses Elon Musk of starting a “disinformation campaign about the performance of the Supreme Federal Court”
And Elon’s going to keep right on doing what he’s been doing.
This was inevitable once the totalitarian communazi Lula got put back in office, to the cheers of every Democrat. Birds of a feather.
Pointless. ISP's in Brazil once ordered to block X can be ordered to block access to VPN's.
It's not difficult.
“Brazil is the economy of the future. And it always will be.” — Charles de Gaulle
Well kids are using VPN’s to get around local laws about age restrictions.
There’s nothing Brazil can do about this outside banning VPN’s (which of course leftists want to do).
But Elon cannot get ad revenue from Brazil.
Just cancel Brazil on Twitter/X.
Without starlink, the US military would be screwed. Starlink has proven impossible for the Russians to block or jam even while they have succeeded in jamming other communications - yes even supposedly sophisticated NATO ones.
Banning VPN’s is not as easy as you think. China has tried it and failed....for years. The Great Firewall of China has been bypassed by plenty of tech savvy Chinese via VPNs.
Brazil is in full deep state control now. Gonna happen here, Gonna happen everywhere unless Trump can stop them. The NWO commith.
The leftwing author STILL doesn't get it.
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