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Tyrannical judge bans X in Brazil, Musk responds: ‘We will begin publishing the long list of his crimes…’

August 31, 2024 | | Print Article

In a dramatic escalation in the global war on free speech, a tyrannical Brazilian judge has banned access to the X platform in the Latin American country.

Supreme Court justice Alexandre de Moraes, who has sweeping powers and is arguably even more powerful than Brazil’s actual president, ordered that access to the global digital town square be blocked because billionaire owner Elon Musk refused to bow to his censorship demands.

Last week, Musk closed X’s offices in Brazil as the battle with de Moraes intensified after the judge threatened to arrest employees for not complying with his orders to remove certain accounts.

The judge, who has been dubbed “Darth Vader” by Musk, took the war to an entirely new level with his ban and the threat of financial ruin to anyone who uses a VPN to skirt the unelected judicial tyrant’s diktat, with violators to face fines of up to $9,000 a day in what The New York Times described as “a highly unusual move.”

De Moraes called Musk an “outlaw” in his order, accusing him of intending to “allow the massive spread of disinformation, hate speech and attacks on the democratic rule of law, violating the free choice of the electorate, by keeping voters away from real and accurate information.”

Musk reacted to the news by slamming de Moraes. “Free speech is the bedrock of democracy and an unelected pseudo-judge in Brazil is destroying it for political purposes,” he wrote on X.

The global Deep State’s number one enemy not named Trump isn’t going to be bullied by the “unelected pseudo-judge” whom he targeted in several additional posts.

“This is a sad day for X users around the world, especially those in Brazil, who are being denied access to our platform,” X CEO Linda Yaccarino said after the national censorship order.

“I wish it did not have to come to this – it breaks my heart. The Brazilian Constitution says, ‘Any and all censorship of a political, ideological and artistic nature is forbidden.’ I hope for a day when the Brazilian government will live up to the Constitution that the Brazilian people ratified. But until there is change in Brazil, X will be shut down,” she added. “We hope to be back soon.”

More reactions.

So far there has not been a peep from the defenders of “democracy” in the Biden administration. You would think that an attack on an American company would merit a response, but they also seem to hate Musk and free speech.

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