I truly hope Musk doesn't cave and the court blocks the site.<p>Maybe this way more people will wake up to all the abuses, violations and honestly, crimes, happening in the country, committed by the Brazilian Supreme Court.
The same court that removed the penalties of more than two hundred confessed criminals during the investigation "operation car wash" [1]
It was the largest corruption scandal in history of human kind [2].<p>The criminals confessed their crimes due to the sentence reduction incentives of the 'rewarded collaboration' law. One of the most important requirements to get the sentence reduction is "you cannot lie, if you do, you lose everything".<p>All of it, now, undone.<p>[1] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Car_Wash" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Car_Wash</a><p>[2] <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/business-43825294" rel="nofollow">https://www.bbc.com/news/business-43825294</a>
On one hand, I do want more countries taking social media to court.<p>However, in this specific case, it's been pretty clear that the Brazilian court orders send to X/Twitter. Specifically, some that order the censoring of specific individuals are illegal. (Some of these orders appear to violate other Brazilian laws)<p>This is a hard one to really judge. Just a mess overall.
Alexandre de Moares is the president of the Brazilian Supreme Court, a selected group containing the most powerful individuals in the country. They are named by the president and once they are done, they never leave the position until they reach their compulsory retirement at the age of 75 years old.<p>They form the highest court of law in Brazil for constitutional issues and its rulings cannot be appealed.
Brazil has been on a path to authoritarianism, especially since the last election. Moraes, the justice issuing unilateral orders to ban accounts, censor people, and arrest them (for political speech), is drunk with power and doing the sitting government’s bidding. Twitter is right to fight morally, for free speech. But they’re also right to challenge it legally - their claim is that Moraes’s orders aren’t constitutional under Brazilian law.<p>The NYT wrote previously how Alexandre de Moraes is a threat to democracy in Brazil:
<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/22/world/americas/brazil-alexandre-de-moraes.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/22/world/americas/brazil-ale...</a>
Calling failing to show up or nominate a legal representative to a judicial hearing in a country that offers a ridiculous number of opportunities to appeal as "feud" shows some bias in reporting.
In 20 hours Brazil could join China, Iran, Myanmar, North Korea, Pakistan, Russia, Turkmenistan and Venezuela, as the only countries in the world where their citizens are banned from reading Twitter.<p>We will no longer be allowed to read what Biden, Kamala, the European leaders, the hundreds of thousands of institutions around the world and 350 million fellow earthlings have to say.<p>All this by way of the sudden and unappealable decision of a single judge this night.