Brazil Twitter Censorship Dispute

Not really. Brazilian courts were always highly political - its members are appointed by presidents, after all. The situation has become more volatile recently, due to the polarised politics.Courts should be a tad more neutral than they are being right now. The people being investigated, and the journalist reporting it, are well known bad faith misinformation spreaders. But it is not up to a judge to find a reason to stop them. They need to be investigated and prosecuted, not banned from a co

Terrible news. But not at all surprising. The judicial system of Brazil, at its highest level, has been deeply corrupted away from supporting liberal values and its constitution. It has instead become politically biased, and heavily supports surveillance and censorship. This has been evident in the actions of Alexandre de Moraes, who is famous from his battle with Twitter/X over censorship, but unfortunately now its the culture of the entire judiciary system and politicians at the highest l

Exactly. It’s one justice on the Supreme Court, with the support of President Lula, suppressing political speech from the opposition. The Brazilian constitution explicitly says expression is protected without censorship in article 5. But this corrupt justice claims the other court he serves on simultaneously gave himself the power he’s exercising, to unilaterally censor content, ban accounts, and arrest people for protected speech. Twitter (not Musk’s decision but their CEO) would comply if ord

what does it say about Brazil's censorship?

the site is not blocked, the question is not comply with brazilian law, if they comply the site will be unblocked, thats a simple and direct matter of not complying with a court order, is not up to twitter to decide what is legal or not in our country, is up to the juditiary branch of governement, Which is separated from executive branch, much like the US and all liberal democracies , the supreme court judges are appointed by the elected president, like in US, but they do not stay all life, must

I'm all for free speech. But Brazil is not the US. Brazil is a sovereign nation. We have our own laws and our people must trace its own path.The old government and its pawns tried a violent coup and failed. Now they must pay for the crimes they committed. There's not much more than that.

This is Brazil. That guy is a judge-god-king. Whatever he writes on a piece of paper becomes law. Saddest part is even on HN you will find brazilians supporting everything he does.

They are not regulating speech in brazil, they are regulating speech on their platform. Bolsonaro can still say whatever he wants in brazil, he just can’t do it on twitter.

Brazil already has laws allowing it to censor websites, what is new here? It seems the judge is targeting accounts related to gangs of misinformation run by supporters of Bolsanaro and may have been involved in their Jan 6 (Jan 23). What context is missing?If anything it seems like Musk seems to be attacking the sovereignty of a nation because he agrees with anything far right these days.

Does this make what is happening in Brazil less wrong?