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Musk creates profile on X against Moraes to leak confidential decisions of the Supreme Court,
The sign reads in Portuguese ... referring to Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes who ordered the platform blocked for having failed to name a local legal representative as required by law The tyrant de Voldemort is crushing the people's right to free speech,
A furious Musk took to X following the ban, saying ... likening de Moraes to the evil wizard in the Harry Potter series We have a right to defend fundamental rights
Moraes, who rarely gives interviews, and who in his most recent statements on the subject has avoided mentioning Musk or X by name, said on Friday There will almost certainly be some outages and performance issues, ... We've never seen traffic like this. Hang with us!"
Bluesky developer Paul Frazee said in a post, adding Regardless of the illegal treatment of Starlink in freezing of our assets, we are complying with the order to block access to X in Brazil,
the company posted in a statement The Starlink team is doing everything possible to keep you connected,
the company wrote on X on September 3. This evil tyrant is a disgrace to judges' robes,
Musk wrote on X along with a photo of de Moraes The battle of the titans, between de Moraes and Musk, reminds us of how powerful, political and provocative tech leaders have become,
said Schaake, who is also author of the forthcoming book “The Tech Coup: How to Save Democracy from Silicon Valley.” The Brazilian people know that freedom of speech is not freedom of aggression. They know that the freedom of speech is not the freedom to spread hate, racism, misogyny and homophobia.”
For example, in an interview earlier this year, he said How did @Alexandre de Moraes become the dictator of Brazil? He has Lula on a leash.”
He talks about free speech but he doesn’t walk the talk,
Doria said of the owner of X, who a 2023 data analysis by the technology information portal Rest of World, said Hope Lula enjoys flying commercial,
the billionaire added, referring to Brazilian President Luis Ignacio Lula da Silva A party that intentionally fails to comply with court decisions appears to consider itself above the rule of law. And so it can turn into an outlaw,
The ‘x’ of the matter is that Elon Musk needs to comply with the law. Just because he’s a billionaire doesn’t mean he doesn’t have to comply with the law,
vice-president Geraldo Alckmin told local media on Monday Twitter is not that popular when it comes to reaching the common Brazilian,
said David Nemer, assistant professor of media studies at the University of Virginia He pointed expressly to Brexit in 2016 and [former] President [Donald] Trump's election here in 2016 as examples of populist outcomes, indicating that he wanted to avoid,
We need some accountability there, but, at least in the short term, Facebook and other social media sites should publicly disclose, between now and the election, if any government officials — right, left, center — pressure them to censor America's posts,
It is highly probable there is a political escalation" because Starlink is "explicitly refusing to comply with orders, national laws,
said Belli, who is also a professor at the Getulio Vargas Foundation's law school Unless the Brazilian government returns the illegally seized property of and SpaceX, we will seek reciprocal seizure of government assets too."
On Monday, Musk called de Moraes a "criminal" and wrote in another post on X It is not possible for a company to operate in the territory of a country and intend to impose its vision on which rules should be valid or applied,
Justice Flavio Dino said as he joined Justice Cristiano Zanin in siding with Moraes