ELON MUSK: "Having a child is an act of optimism about the future. We need to give people a sense of optimism and excitement about the future, and I believe that the future will be better than the past, and they'll be more interested in having kids."
++ GESTORES DA SPX, VERDE E JGP NÃO ESPERAM RUPTURA NO MERCADO SE LULA FOR REELEITO
++ LUIS STUHLBERGER AFIRMA QUE MERCADO PODE DAR BENEFÍCIO DA DÚVIDA AO NOVO GOVERNO LULA
To all the Brazilian people,
I may not be Brazilian, but I can promise you, no one will fight harder for your freedom of expression rights than me.
I will fight to the very end, relentlessly, without folding.
No Brasil, o pobre tem: TV, geladeira,
celular, microondas.
Mas não tem: saúde, educação,
segurança e saneamento básico.
O pobre tem muito do que o
capitalismo oferece.
E nada do que o Estado promete.
𝕏 continues to prioritize truth & free speech over money
-All the ads on 𝕏 are subject to Community Notes,even if they lose advertising money as a result
-𝕏 removed the content restrictions imposed by a court in Brazil. As a result,𝕏 will probably lose all revenue in Brazil
BRAZIL IS ON THE BRINK
I’m reporting to you from Brazil, where a dramatic series of events are underway.
At 5:52 pm Eastern Time, today, April 6, 2024, X corporation, formerly known as Twitter, announced that a Brazilian court had forced it to “block certain popular accounts in Brazil.”
Then, less than one hour later, the owner of X, @ElonMusk announced that X would defy the court’s order, and lift all restrictions.
“As a result,” said Musk, “we will probably lose all revenue in Brazil and have to shut down our office there. But principles matter more than profit.”
At any moment, Brazil’s Supreme Court could shut off all access to X/Twitter for the people of Brazil.
It is not an exaggeration to say that Brazil is on the brink of dictatorship at the hands of a totalitarian Supreme Court Justice named Alexandre de Moraes.
President Lula da Silva is participating in the push toward totalitarianism. Since taking office, Lula has massively increased government funding of the mainstream news media, most of which are encouraging increased censorship.
What Lula and de Moraes are doing is an outrageous violation of Brazil’s constitution and the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights.
At this moment, Brazil is not yet a dictatorship. It still has elections and the Brazilian people have other means at their disposal to confront authoritarianism.
But the Federal Supreme Court and the Superior Electoral Court are directly interfere in those elections through censorship.
Three days ago I published the Twitter Files for Brazil. They show that Moraes has violated the Brazilian Constitution. Moraes illegally demanded that Twitter reveal private information about Twitter users who used hashtags he considered inappropriate. He demanded access to Twitter's internal data, violating the platform's policy. He censored, on his own initiative and without any respect for due process, posts on Twitter by parliamentarians from the Brazilian Congress. And Moraes tried to turn Twitter's content moderation policies into a weapon against supporters of then-president Jair Bolsonaro.
I say this as an independent and non-partisan journalist. I'm not a fan of either Bolsonaro or Trump. My political views are very moderate. But I know censorship when I see it.
The Twitter Files also revealed that Google, Facebook, Uber, WhatsApp and Instagram betrayed the people of Brazil. If such evidence is proven, the executives of these companies behaved like cowards: they provided the Brazilian government with personal registration data and telephone numbers without a court order and, therefore, violating the law.
When Twitter refused to provide Brazilian authorities with private user information, including direct messages, the government attempted to sue Twitter's top Brazilian lawyer.
When I lived in Brazil in 1992, I was very left-wing. At the time, Lula and the PT's slogans were “Without fear of being happy”.
In recent days, I have spoken to dozens of Brazilians, including professors, journalists and respected lawyers. Everyone tells me they are shocked by what is happening. They told me that they are afraid to speak their mind and that the Lula government is complicit in creating this climate of fear.
Brazil belongs to the Brazilians. It is not my country. As such, there are limits to what I am capable of doing.
But I can say things that many Brazilians do not feel safe saying: Alexandre de Moraes is a tyrant. And the only way to deal with tyrants is to confront them. It is up to Brazil’s senators to confront the tyrant. And it is up to the people of Brazil to demand that their senators do so.
Brasil é o país onde o militante de esquerda faz textão contra canudinho de plástico para as Tartarugas na Antártida, mas fica em silêncio nas redes sociais com estupro e degola de crianças em nação inimiga de ditaduras revolucionárias.
NOTA À IMPRENSA
Mesmo tendo vencido as eleições para cuidar do futuro do Brasil, o presidente Luis Inacio Lula da Silva parece insistir em manter os pés no palanque e os olhos no retrovisor, agora tentando reescrever a história por meio de narrativas ideológicas.
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