Brazil’s conservatives and freedom lovers are in a state of bliss watching billionaire Elon Musk stare down his Supreme Court justice-turned-tyrant Alexandre de Moraes, using the unvarnished truth to demolish his reputation and subjecting justice to a barrage of ridicule from him. so he deserves it.
The story is very simple: not only does Moraes ask being hit because he broke the platform’s terms of use, which he didn’t do.
Musk: “We continued to receive requests from Judge Alexandre to suspend the accounts of sitting members of parliament and leading journalists. We couldn’t tell them that this was Alexandre’s will, we had to pretend it was due to our rules. And that was the last straw and we said no.”
So, it now appears that Musk is the iceberg into which Brazil’s Titanic ship of unbridled censorship will crash and sink.
Moraes involved Musk in the ridiculous investigation against the – non-existent – “digital militias” and so the head of X began to tell the world the truth about the reality of Brazilian politics:
How did it happen? @Alexander de Moraes becomes dictator of Brazil? He has Lula on a leash
—Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 9, 2024
He even “went there” and said what every free-thinking Brazilian knows: Lula is out of prison and is only in power thanks to Moraes’ actions:
But since Alexandre got Lula out of prison and put his thumb on the scale to get Lula elected, Lula obviously won’t take action against him.
The next elections will be fundamental.
—Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 9, 2024
So, now, Musk will reveal to the world all the demands of the petty tyrant:
Soon I will publish everything requested by the user @Alexander and how such requests violate Brazilian law.
This judge has brazenly and repeatedly betrayed the Constitution and the Brazilian people. He should resign or be impeached.
Shame @Alexandershame.
—Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 7, 2024
Just read this from Glenn Greenwald: “The only time in my entire career as a journalist where I questioned whether I should actually question, challenge or criticize a political official was this person, who went so far as to order people imprisoned without trial for criticizing him . […] If you criticize Alexandre De Moraes, you get banned or maybe jailed, which is why I spent every second up until the start of this show on the phone with my lawyers.
Criticism of Moraes’ actions has also come from where you least expect it, with Russia’s Eurasian Movement founder Alexander Dugin declaring support for the African-American billionaire in his free speech stance against Brazil’s Supreme Court liberal alignment:
I think Brazil’s decision to censor https://t.co/JPsGKa01ru is wrong and disastrous. It is obvious that for now it is the only global network without any censorship. We can hate something that’s going on https://t.co/JPsGKa01ru or love it. But true freedom is like…
—Alexander Dugin (@Agdchan) April 8, 2024
“I think Brazil’s decision to censor http://x.com/ is wrong and disastrous. It is obvious that for now it is the only global network without any censorship.
We can hate something that’s happening on http://x.com/ or love it. But true freedom is like this.
Only http://x.com/ can provide the correct picture of how things really are on a global scale.
And it is useless in the era of total lies. Obviously http://x.com/ is not the ultimate truth and does not pretend to be. It’s just good old free speech that we’ve lost elsewhere…”
Brazil is watching this unfold with a big smile on their face. But, while the country’s shortcomings are being displayed to the world in spectacular fashion, it is also nice to know that it is also the US State Department and Joe Biden, who were behind Moraes’ sudden emergence as über censor.
Here is Musk who discovers that he is being investigated by the Brazilian federal police:
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