Posted on 09/01/2024 12:49:36 PM PDT by SimpleJack
It's easy to forget how little protection there is for free speech around the world. Especially in countries like Brazil, where one Supreme Court justice can effectively take over making and enforcing laws at will.
That's exactly what Alexandre de Moraes, the Brazilian minister of the Supreme Federal Court, has done during his tenure, culminating in his recent unilateral ruling banning X (formerly Twitter) across Brazil and imposing heavy fines for anyone found using the app. All of this stems from de Moraes' disagreement with Elon Musk, his extreme, anti-free speech views, and willingness to use authoritarian measures to enforce his will.
FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr posted about de Moraes' decision on X, explaining that it's specifically designed to attack free speech. "Nonetheless, de Morea argues that free speech on X cannot be allowed to continue because the diversity of political opinions expressed on the site might influence the people of Brazil ahead of their 2024 elections," Carr explains. "See op. at 31-32. In other words, de Morea is arguing that free speech is a threat to democracy—a position that is as Orwellian as it is dangerous."
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The woke nfl will love Brazil for this. Cause Elon is a big bad meanie.
Just like the NBA loves China.
Good point.
Maybe they’ll kneel when the brazilian national anthem is played.
Can states outlaw international money transfers?
Cancel Yes.
Professional football has no business playing on Thursday.
Nor playing on another continent.
Nor playing exclusively on a streaming platform.
But the NFL is no longer an American game.
It is subservient to the globalist totalitarian one world gubmint.
Anyone else remember, the NFL pulled a Super Bowl out of Arizona, because at the time, Arizona didn’t have a state holiday for Martin Luther King?
If the powers that be in the NFL feel strongly enough about this, they would pull the game.
I just read that wild fires are rendering the air quality as dangerous and there is a possibility of cancellation.
The NFL believes everything should be as expensive as possible. They live out that belief every single day!
That is what VPNs are for.
We must self-flagellate and treasonously hate the USA, and undermine it at all costs so it can be more communist. Which Brazil already does to some extent, so that's fine.
It's only when communist “speech” is abridged that they protest and kneel.
Cancel.
Watching how these organizations behave makes muh eyes rain.
National Football League, huh? What nation?
Over the years they have been replacing key personnel with leftards.
It was not easy to see/notice but slowly and regularly Americans have been being replaced. Some through normal attrition, the tough ones they’d find some old email or find some old chick to say something and they would railroad them out.
Now we’re seeing that these companies are just state organs. They’re running the circuses, while the enemy moves around behind.
The NFL is a spineless organization. Of course they’ll play.
YES! ;-)
MLB pulled the All Star game out of Atlanta because they didn’t like the Georgia voting law.
Hell, the woke nfl will probably move all their games to Brazil…I wish they would!
They can just use Truth Social.
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