Brazil’s conservatives and freedom lovers are in a state of bliss watching billionaire Elon Musk stare down their very personal Supreme Court docket Justice-turned tyrant Alexandre de Moraes, utilizing the unvarnished fact to demolish his fame, and subjecting the justice to a barrage of ridicule that he so deserves.
The story may be very easy: not solely is Moraes demanding that X droop the accounts of outstanding conservatives, towards Brazilian legislation, and below the penalty of heavy day by day fines, however he additionally ‘forbids’ the corporate from even mentioning the rationale for his or her suspension – X must faux they had been struck as a result of they broke the platform phrases of use – which they haven’t.
Musk: “We kept getting these demands from Judge Alexandre to suspend accounts of sitting members of the parliament and major journalists. We could not tell them that this was at the behest of Alexandre, we had to pretend that it was due to our rules. And that was the last straw, and we said no.”
So, now it appears as if Musk is the iceberg into which the Titanic ship of Brazil’s unbridled censorship will crash and sink.
Moraes included Musk on the ridiculous inquiry towards the – nonexistent – ‘digital militias’ and so X’s head began to inform the world the actual deal in regards to the actuality of Brazil’s politics:
How did @Alexandre de Moraes turn into the dictator of Brazil? He has Lula on a leash
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 9, 2024
He even ‘went there’ and stated what each free-thinking Brazilian is aware of: Lula is just out of jail and into energy due to Moraes’ actions:
However since Alexandre pulled Lula out of jail and put his thumb on the dimensions to get Lula elected, Lula will clearly not take motion towards him.
The subsequent election shall be key.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 9, 2024
So, now, Musk will disclose all of the petty tyrant’s calls for for the world to see:
Coming shortly, will publish the whole lot demanded by @Alexandre and the way these requests violate Brazilian legislation.
This choose has overtly and repeatedly betrayed the structure and other people of Brazil. He ought to resign or be impeached.
Disgrace @Alexandre, disgrace.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 7, 2024
Simply learn this from Glenn Greenwald: “The only time in my entire career as a journalist that I have ever wondered if I should really be questioning, challenging, or critiquing a political official is this person, who has gone so far as to order people to be imprisoned without a trial for criticizing him. […] If you criticize Alexandre De Moraes, you get banned or perhaps imprisoned, which is why I spent every second up until this show started on the phone with my lawyers.”
Criticism of Moraes actions got here even from the place you’d least count on it, with the founding father of Eurasian Motion of Russia, Alexander Dugin declaring assist for the African-American billionaire in his Free Speech stance towards liberal-aligned Brazilian Supreme Court docket:
I believe the choice of Brasil to censor https://t.co/JPsGKa01ru is mistaken and disastrous. It’s apparent that it’s for now the one international community with none censorship. We are able to hate one thing that is happening on https://t.co/JPsGKa01ru or adore. However the actual freedom is like…
— Alexander Dugin (@Agdchan) April 8, 2024
“I believe the choice of Brasil to censor http://x.com/ is mistaken and disastrous. It’s apparent that it’s for now the one international community with none censorship.
We are able to hate one thing that is happening on http://x.com/ or adore. However the actual freedom is like this.
Solely http://x.com/ can present the right image how the issues actually are on the worldwide scale.
And it’s wothless within the period of whole falsehood. Obviuosly, http://x.com/ isn’t final fact and it doesn’t faux to be it. Simply good outdated freedom of speech we have now misplaced wherever else…”
Brazil is watching this unfold with an enormous smile on its face. However, whereas the nation’s shortcomings are being proven to the world in an spectacular trend, it’s additionally good to know that that is additionally made by the US State Division and Joe Biden, who had been behind the sudden emergence of Moraes as an über censor.
Right here’s Musk discovering out that he’s being investigated by Brazilian Federal police:
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