Elon Musk threatens to oust Brazil's chief judge as an alleged traitor

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Bolsonaro is accused of devising a plan in November 2022 to overturn his election defeat, plans that included the arrest of Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes.

Weeks later, Bolsonaro's supporters stormed the country's capital, Brasilia, and flooded Congress, the presidential palace and the Supreme Court in a January 6-style uprising, but it quickly failed.

The testimony of senior military commanders, published last month, implicates Bolsonaro, a populist similar to Donald Trump, in a corruption case. Coup attempt.

De Moraes was one of the leading figures in this ongoing struggle. The president of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal sought to clamp down on claims spread online by Bolsonaro's supporters that the October 2022 election was unfairly stolen from him.

In his latest move, De Moraes opened an investigation into the

Disagreement comes after Published documents Written by journalist Michael Shellenberger for Twitter Files. The alleged one De Moraes sought to use the platform's content moderation policies as a weapon against supporters of Bolsonaro, who was still president at the time.

After publishing the documents — and ordering de Moraes to block certain accounts — Musk called de Moraes “the Brazilian Darth Vader” on Sunday and said that X would publish everything De Moraes requested and detail how those requests violate Brazilian law.

“This judge has brazenly and repeatedly betrayed Brazil’s constitution and its people,” Musk said. to publish Sunday. “He must resign or be removed.”

Brazilian Darth Vader!

– Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 7, 2024

This is not the first time Musk has had to deal with requests from governments.

He was criticized last year for bowing to Turkish government requests to censor content on his platform before Recep Tayyip Erdogan won re-election.

“Principles before profit” or “The biggest hypocrite in the world.”

However, this time, Musk refused to comply with De Moraes' demands and warned that X would likely have to lose all revenue in Brazil and close its local operations.

He added: “Principles are more important than profit.” to publish.

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Brazil is engaged in a massive crackdown on freedom of expression led by Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes.

De Moraes has thrown people in prison without trial for things they posted on social media. He demanded that users be deleted from social networking sites.

– Michael Shellenberger (@shellenberger) April 3, 2024

Musk has portrayed himself as a bulwark against the collapse of Western civilization caused by people like de Moraes.

He argues that Americans' very lives are at risk from diverse employment and is concerned about declining birth rates and female depression. Hormonal birth control.

It also spreads fear ofThe socialist deep stateLed by Democrats who consolidate their control by giving illegal immigrants the right to vote.

Most of all, he portrays himself as a fighter for freedom of expression. When Germany's far-right leader had to answer in court for intentionally using a banned Nazi slogan, Musk bullied him. Dealing with him Online by claiming that the government is suppressing freedom of expression.

However, the businessman has received criticism for his inconsistent approach.

He has threatened comments that suit him politically — like X members posting about “Decolonization“L Palestinewhose comment could help end suspicion that Musk may be anti-Semitic himself — or lean too heavily toward his values, like those X posters who use the term “cis” in a way that Musk finds offensive.

Last month, a judge ruled that Musk's lawsuit against the Center for Countering Digital Hate was “shamefully and loudly” clear about its intent to punish the CCDH for criticizing its management of X — for using free speech against it — as well as to discourage others from doing so. Do this in the future.

Because of Musk's uneven application of the term, Trevor Timm, executive director of the Freedom of the Press Foundation, accused him of… January For being “the world's biggest hypocrite about freedom of expression.”