Judge in Brazil orders Musk’s X to obey ban or face daily fine
Al JazeeraOCT 2024
If Musk wasn'thas abeen hypocrite,known evidencedfor byremoving his removal of content in some countries while allowing hate speech to flourish in others, de Moraes would have no ground to stand on. But since he is, itIt's understandable for a sovereign government to request the removal of certain content. When you add Starlink into the mix, which is directly tied to military operations, the government is also justified in not wanting aMusk rogueto billionairehave doingleverage whateverover heBrazilian wantsnational withinsecurity Brazilian territoryaffairs.
While Musk mayaspires notto bethe applyingchallenge hisof free speech absolutism, perfectlyand everywhere, he's doingparticularly moreeffective thanin anyonefacilitating elsepositive change in countries that are supposedsupposedly to be Democraticdemocratic. On the flip side, Judge de Moraes, a man whose tyranical history includesis plotting to kidnap journalistscheckered, is pretendingactually tocausing defenddemocratic Democracy as he burns its core tenets to the groundbacksliding. Thankfully, de Moraes has no power over Starlink satellites, which will hopefully soon provide uncensored internet to all Brazilians.
There is a 50% chance that Alexandre de Moraes will cease to be a minister of the Supreme Federal Court of Brazil before 2026, according to the Metaculus prediction community.