Elon Musk Goes to War With Brazil Communists Demanding Censorship of Accounts Critical of the Regime

They don't demand much -- just the total control of your speech and thoughts 24 hours per day, every single day.

Brazil Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes initiated an investigation of tech magnate Elon Musk on Sunday, the billionaire owner and CTO of social network X (formerly Twitter). The probe concerns possible obstruction of justice by Musk who said, over the weekend, he would defy the court's orders to restrict or suspend some popular accounts on its platform.

Moraes also ordered the inclusion of Musk in a broader inquiry into so-called "digital militias," a term applied to people accused of spreading misinformation online to attack democratic institutions in Brazil.

The orders follow threats of open defiance posted by Musk to his account on X, where he now has 180.2 million listed followers.

A defiant Musk wrote on Saturday in response to earlier court orders: "We are lifting all restrictions. This judge has applied massive fines, threatened to arrest our employees and cut off access to in Brazil. As a result, we will probably lose all revenue in Brazil and have to shut down our office there. But principles matter more than profit."

By Sunday, Musk was further provoking the Brazilian Supreme Court calling for the resignation or impeachment of the justice who decided on the orders, Moraes. Musk also made unsupported claims that the judge had broken the law in Brazil.

This is CNBC. They claimed the Hunter Biden laptop was a Russian op and Trump was controlled by the Kremlin.

But Elon Musk's claims are "unsupported."

Musk says he has information this judge is a "traitor," and he's going to publish it:

On Sunday, the tech billionaire also threatened to publish information from inside X that would paint Moraes as a traitor to his own country.

He wrote, "Coming shortly, will publish everything demanded by [Alexandre de Moraes] and how those requests violate Brazilian law. This judge has brazenly and repeatedly betrayed the constitution and people of Brazil. He should resign or be impeached. Shame [Alexandre de Moraes], shame."

Moraes has long supported regulations to rein in harmful content and misinformation online in Brazil. He has faced pushback from a range of entities including tech companies, far-right officials in the country, and former President Bolsonaro.

Of course.

I love how the left attempts to legitimize state censorship of negative information about the state by claiming that these attempts have deep historical roots -- "Moraes has long supported regulations to rein in harmful content."

And by "long supported" attempts to stop "misinformation," remember that this burst of fascist zeal for thought control actually dates all the way back to... 2016.

"Long supported."

If he was supporting crackdowns on speech before then, he wasn't fighting against "misinformation." He was always just an anti-freedom fascist.

posted by Disinformation Expert Ace at 12:00 PM

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