http://twitchy.com/amy-curtis/2024/08/29/brazilian-judge-poised-to-shut-down-x-in-country-unless-musk-complies-with-demands-n24002
Back in early August, Elon Musk and social media site Rumble filed suit against the Global Alliance for Responsible Media (GARM). The lawsuit must've had teeth, because shortly after it was filed, GARM disbanded. Which tells us Elon Musk is not a guy you want to mess around with.
Well, GARM was a purely Fascist organization bent on denying Americans their First Amendment Rights - it so needed to die. Unfortunately, I'm sure the Nazis who formed it will try to come back for more of their authoritarian treachery in some other form before long.
But in Brazil, Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes hasn't gotten that memo. He's got Elon Musk in his sights, and is threatening to shut down X in the country if Musk doesn't comply.
It started with orders to comply with de Moraes' demands for censorship and the turning over of private information, and Musk responded by closing the X office in Brazil:
Elon Musk (@elonmusk) ~ The decision to close the 𝕏 office in Brazil was difficult, but, if we had agreed to @alexandre’s (illegal) secret censorship and private information handover demands, there was no way we could explain our actions without being ashamed.
So, Musk rightly responded with ...
Now de Moraes is demanding Musk re-open that office and comply with his demands. Or else:
Michael Shellenberger (@shellenberger) ~ Brazil's Supreme Court Justice, Alexandre de Moraes, says he will "IMMEDIATELY SHUT DOWN" X if Elon Musk does not re-open the Brazil office and comply with his censorship orders. As such, Brazil is mere hours away from becoming a dictatorship without freedom of speech.
All at the whim of one man.
Michael Shellenberger (@shellenberger) ~ "Moraes' subpoena to Elon Musk via X is atypical and illegal, say legal experts."
"According to Andre Marsiglia, a constitutional lawyer and freedom of expression expert, the subpoena issued by Moraes is invalid."
This lil' Brazilian Adolf wants Musk to restore the X office in Brazil so he can attempt to have some hold over him. BWHA HA HA HA HA HA ... good luck with that, Pedro! If you have the ability to shut down access to X within Brazil ... okay ... knock yourself out, you Fascist ... but, everyone knows it's because you're a pansy who can't handle legitimate criticism and your answer for that is to deny free speech to every person inside Brazil. That's a whole lotta overkill just to try to protect your fragile ego.
Michael Shellenberger (@shellenberger) ~ The New York Times calls Brazil's imminent blocking of X "one of the biggest tests yet for Mr. Musk’s efforts to mold X to his personal ideology ..."
Personal ideology? It's called free speech.
The New York Times is a sad shell of its former self.
The New York Times think free speech should only apply to them and the people they like.
Yeah, The New York Slimes are attempting to do their best impersonation of Joseph Goebbels that they can.
Isaiah L. Carter (@IsaiahLCarter) ~ Wait a sec, let's walk through this.
Alexandre de Moraes, who literally looks like a gaucho Voldemort, says he'll shut down this platform *ENTIRELY* if @elonmusk doesn't re-open X's offices in Brazil and serve as that State's censorship service.
This is LAUGHABLE.
No ... Moraes does not have the ability to shut down X "entirely" ... just deny access to X for everyone within the borders of Brazil.
Laughed out loud at 'gaucho Voldemort.'
Well done.
For his part, Elon doesn't seem worried about this at all:
Elon Musk (@elonmusk) ~ Grok, “Generate an image as if Voldemort and a Sith Lord had a baby and he became a judge in Brazil”
It’s uncanny! 🤣🤣
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence
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