Comment by matheusmoreira

Comment by matheusmoreira 4 hours ago

Political censorship is unconstitutional in Brazil. These judges are after Bolsonaro and his supporters for the political speech they engaged in. Blatant political censorship.

The constitution literally contains the words:

> Any and all censorship of political and artistic nature is prohibited

It's really not that hard to understand. Any citizen can understand this. It's just that it doesn't matter what the law says. Because there's no court above them, the law becomes whatever they say it is.

defrost 4 hours ago

Which parágrafos or incisos of the Constituição da República Federativa do Brasil

> literally contains the words:

cited in English?

Isn't political debate in Brazil sharply divided by selective absolute Constitionalism in any case?

Why leap to the defence of bad faith falsehoods spread by bad losers of a democratic election?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_Brazil

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rdlw 4 hours ago

Article 220, Paragraph 2 of the official English version says that verbatim

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littlestymaar 2 hours ago

> Blatant political censorship.

Shutting down businesses (not speeches, they aren't keeping pro-lula Twitter accounts up while censoring conservative ones) for refusing to comply with the law isn't censorship.

Censoring books in public library is censorship though, and Musk supported De Santis anyway.

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matheusmoreira an hour ago

> keeping pro-lula Twitter accounts up while censoring conservative ones
Funny. Among the accounts targeted by this judge, not a single one is pro-Lula. Really curious, indeed. Are these guys saints? Are they literally never wrong on the internet?
Not too long ago, one of Lula's ministers "disseminated" some serious "misinformation". She literally said about a hundred million brazilians are starving to death right now. Where's the judge's fact checking? I wonder.
I mean, Lula himself has admitted to journalists that he just makes up statistics on the spot. You'd think he'd be this judge's worst enemy, given how gung-ho he is about "misinformation"... Oh shit, is that the judge attending a barbecue with Lula and his allies? Whew, lad. What do you know?

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bryant 4 hours ago

There's an argument to be made that lying to the public is not political speech.

Relevant analysis: https://misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu/article/framing-disinf...

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ImJamal 4 hours ago

I didn't read your link, but if political speech has to be honest then I'm sure all of the politicians in Brazil are going to have their speech censored, right?

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- matheusmoreira 2 hours ago
  
  Of course. Brazilian politicians, even the literal brazilian government's official accounts, used to get fact checked on X on a pretty much daily basis. I have videos of our current president straight up admitting to a journalist that he invents numbers on the spot.
  These are the "authorities" who would presume to condemn you for posting "fake news". In the 2022 elections, I witnessed these judge-kings censor people for associating Lula with the Venezuelan dictator. Then I had to watch him literally roll out the red carpet for that very same dictator only months into his mandate. More recently I watched as he supported the dictator's "election".
  
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bpodgursky 4 hours ago

"An argument to be made" is weasel chickenshit language. Are you making the argument or not?

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