Ok, so, I felt like I had to make an effort to drop by here for a quick statement about the 🇧🇷 situation before going back to WC and Brain.
The TL;DR comes first:
I, and MOST Brazilians, may not like being blocked out of here… but we actually support the judge who ordered 𝕏 blocked.
After Elon had his last chance to comply, with the summons posted by the Supreme Court on social media (yes, he had already been notified through traditional channels more than ten days before, but ignored it), he said Brazil lives under a dictatorship and, more than that, made comments saying that 𝕏 is “the only available source of truth”. (does it make you laugh like it does me?) Well, the lying starts from the top.
So Elon picks and chooses which judicial decisions he will comply with. As he (and most of the uninformed world) sees us as a Banana Republic, he believes that obeying the orders of a magistrate with whom he disagrees is something for delivery drivers, street stallers, teachers, mechanics, vendors, bankers, nurses, laborers, journalists, and… maybe you, anon.
Not him, no, he owns a social media empire, sends people to space, makes electric cars, and owns satellites, so of course he has the right to be the reviewer of state decisions. I just wonder why he doesn't have the courage to do something like that in China, despite disagreeing with the actions of Xi's government.
Dis you know that despite billionaire Elon Musk defining himself as an "absolutist of freedom of speech" and protesting what he called "so much censorship" by Justice Moraes, he has been complying, without complaining, with HUNDREDS of content removal orders from the… [right wing] governments of India and Turkey. But he didn’t tell you that, did he?
Well, in India, 𝕏 removed links to the BBC documentary "India: Modi's Dilemma" after a determination by Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government last year. Modi governed the state then and is accused of omission. The documentary portrays Modi's role in a massacre of nearly a thousand Muslims in the state of Gujarat in 2002. 😊
At the time, Kanchan Gupta, an advisor to the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting of India, said “Videos sharing hostile propaganda from BBC World and anti-India trash, disguised as a 'documentary' on YouTube, and tweets sharing links to the BBC documentary were blocked under India's sovereign laws and rules". He added that both YouTube and Twitter, already under Musk's command, had complied with the order.
In recent months, 𝕏 has systematically removed posts critical of the government and banned accounts of critical journalists in India. Last October, for example, it blocked the accounts of two US-based human rights defense groups - Hindus for Human Rights and the Indian American Muslim Council, both critical of Modi. So much for freedom of speech, huh?
At the end of the day, anyone with common sense in this app (and the rest, I don’t care for) knows Elon’s crusade is not really for freedom, but for power, especially since his other companies happily do business with authoritarian governments. You can choose to be ok with that. But he saw in Brazil — governed by a center-left government which is both domestically beloved and internationally respected for upholding the sovereignty of underdeveloped countries tired of conquerors and imperialists — a good opportunity to try to show force against those who attempt to limit the lack of regulation of social media platforms. So he’s burning 𝕏 here and strengthening our right wing extremists in the process.
Continues in the next tweet: