Bruno Soares

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[Michael Shellenberger @shellenberger]

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.

[Bruno Soares @soaresbruno]

@resenhaescrita Faltou esse aqui ó: https://t.co/Bgj5eIzwWP

[Bruno Soares @soaresbruno]

@mashable This is so old that the restaurant has already been sold to a chain and shut down. Please stop reposting old pieces.

[Bruno Soares @soaresbruno]

@GeracaodeValor Não generalize. Isso varia de estado pra estado. Em Massachusetts, por exemplo, há cobrança de excise tax pelos municípios, seguindo alíquota definida pelo governo estadual (2,5% do valor definido em tabela regressiva), o que acaba sendo bem similar ao IPVA pago no Brasil.

[Bruno Soares @soaresbruno]

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[Bruno Soares @soaresbruno]

Nailed it! #not

[Bruno Soares @soaresbruno]

Não acredito em coincidências. Seria um prenúncio do jogo de quarta-feira? 🐔

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

The story of Jay, the rooster that killed the hawk which attacked its hen house

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[WhatsApp @WhatsApp]

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[Bruno Soares @soaresbruno]

RT @wcathcart: As Mark just announced, we're introducing Chat Lock to @WhatsApp! https://t.co/44lcvBFzJG
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[Meta Newsroom @MetaNewsroom]

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[Bruno Soares @soaresbruno]

@nandamnetto Disney Dreamlight Valley?

[Bruno Soares @soaresbruno]

@bmnogueira To sabendo não, me conta aí. O cabuloso caiu de novo?

[Bruno Soares @soaresbruno]

[…] just the smell of familiar food, the sound of your own language, the ground beneath your feet feels different. It’s palpable, you close your eyes, and then inside you just realize that this land is in your blood, it’s home to you.

[Bruno Soares @soaresbruno]

@OoniHQ I dropped my Ooni Pro oven door, broke the glass and bent the thermometer probe. I’ve been visiting your website on a weekly basis but these parts are always out of stock. Is there any way for me to get a replacement? Thank you!

[Bruno Soares @soaresbruno]

Just arrived at @Smashburger in Natick, MA 20 minutes before closing and was denied seating claiming they were preparing to close. The person that took my order (to-go) was extremely unprofessional, drinking and burping the whole time. Very disappointing.

[Bruno Soares @soaresbruno]

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[Bruno Soares @soaresbruno]

joguei https://t.co/smMPpzxVuv #74 3/6

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[Bruno Soares @soaresbruno]

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