I'll give a quick summary of what's happening in Brazil and a little bit of historical background. Brazil is a socialist hellhole. It's so socialist/communist that even its people don't recognize that every single idea they have in their heads was influenced by decades of socialist indoctrination in their schools and media. Conservative or libertarian values are concepts so alien to a brazilian that if you present them to a basic bitch economics lesson they'll marvel (or get angry) at the newly presented information. So every time you hear a brazilian labeling something in the political spectrum, take it with a large grain of salt, expect them to be extremely leftist and anything to the right of them is extreme right. Brazil had leaders that implemented fascistic/sindicalists ideas directly from Mussolini's toolbox, resulting in horrible economic policies that have destroyed any chance of economic growth. The country has been under heavy socialist rule since the military dictatorship. Do not listen to any brazilian that says that the military dictatorship was right-leaning, they allowed communist infiltration in the universities, schools and every sector of the state. They imposed retarded protectionist policies that killed the computer and car industries of the country. The car industries are STILL under these policies for over 70 YEARS and they're SHIT. There's also plans to extend these policies to 2070. The biggest communist party here is PT, the Workers Party. They've ruled the contry for over 16 years now. The state is basically 90% leftist. After Bolsonaro won in 2018 by being what an american would consider a centrist, he enacted policies which reduced the size of the state, obviously angering every branch of government and media. He got the Trump treatment, obviously.

>>21703 The media used COVID to destroy Bolsonaro's chances of being re-elected, even though his decisions were good in hindsight (masks are useless, the vaccines weren't tested correctly, this is all bullshit, we shouldn't stop people from working or going outside their homes). The supreme court (STF) took this as their chance to impose their will over the people, they overruled Bolsonaro's decisions and gave power to the governors to close down the economy and everything else. They also started to abuse their power, arresting anyone and everyone that criticized them, including politicians and congressmen. Brazilian politicians are openly corrupt and pieces of shit, STF uses this fact to keep them under their thumbs by holding them hostages with old or new cases against politicians that they can hold onto indefinitely. Also, since STF now has all the power due to them being able to judge the law (and also create new laws), politicians (Hello, I just arrived from Cuckchan, please bully me)m as the keys to the kingdom, so they will never attempt to impeach members of the supreme court. The STF found Lula guilty of his curroption charges, but since they wanted Bolsonaro out, they suddenly reverted their judgement and freed Lula. Alexandre de Moraes is the main judge that has been abusing his position, he's broken the law innumerable times, from being the judge, prosecutor and the victim of cases, to giving 17 years in jail for "terrorism against our democracy" to people who weren't even in the jan 8 protests. He also let a sick man die in jail, knowing he had heart problems. The man also had video proof he wasn't in the protests when they became violent. Elon musk became entangled in all of this after Alexandre started aking twitter to block accounts for "misinformation", this is against the brazilian constitution, which only allows judges to take down CONTENT from users. The removal of accounts is considered censorship and is against the law. And there you go.

>>21704 Oh yeah, almost forgot. Alexandre de Moraes was also president of the Supreme Electoral Court, and he took away Bolsonaro's right to be a candidate for 8 years because he had a meeting with diplomats from other countries about the electoral machines (which are pieces of shit with closed source-code, I can talk about how they're shit for hours). All the users which Alexandre wanted blocked from twitter were right-leaning.

>Brazil’s X Ban Drives Outraged Bolsonaro Supporters to Rally for ‘Free Speech’ https://archive.ph/2rkA1 <Thousands of supporters of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro flooded Sao Paulo’s main boulevard for an Independence Day rally Saturday, buoyed by the government’s blocking of tech billionaire Elon Musk’s X platform, a ban they say is proof of their political persecution. <A few thousand demonstrators, clad in the yellow-and-green colors of Brazil’s flag, poured onto Av. Paulista. References to the ban on X and images of Musk abounded. <“Thank you for defending our freedom,” read one banner praising the tech entrepreneur. <Saturday’s march was seen as a test of Bolsonaro’s capacity to mobilize turnout ahead of the October municipal elections, even though Brazil’s electoral court has barred him from running for office until 2030. It’s also something of a referendum on X, whose suspension has raised eyebrows even among some of Bolsonaro’s opponents all the while stoking the flames of Brazil’s deep-seated political polarization. >Post-X Ban, Beware The Brazilian Model Of Institutional Mistrust https://archive.ph/LIYWP <As democracies grapple with misinformation, Brazil’s hardline approach is seen by some as a potential model. The country has taken extreme measures to police online discourse – recently banning X (formerly Twitter) and fining citizens using VPNs to access it. These moves highlight its boldness but also underscore the dangers of empowering the state to treat mistrust as merely a crisis of information.

Germany decides to join in: >German Politician Threatens X, Telegram With Bans https://archive.ph/ZQImR <MP Anton Hofreiter, the chairman of the Bundestag’s European policy committee, called for tighter control over social media, up to the outright blocking of certain platforms. He made the remarks on Saturday while speaking to reporters from Funke Media Group. <“One of the biggest problems of extremism is online radicalization,” Hofreiter stated, adding that the dissemination of “anti-constitutional content on the Internet” must be stopped. <Of course, "online radicalization" is one of those intentionally vague terms which dictators and authoritarians leave purposefully ambiguous so they can have a green light to censor and throw in jail anyone they want, and sure enough... <“We need to tackle the root of the problem and push back radicalization in digital space as well as in society,” he stressed. <Germany, of course, is one of the places in Europe where the crackdown on any form of free speech has been unprecedented, and would shock most Americans who still, by and large, have the protections of the 1st amendment. Those social media platforms that refuse to abide by German laws and remove “extremist content” must be blocked altogether, Hofreiter argued, specifically singling out X, formerly Twitter, among the potential targets.

>>21703 And as expected, just livestream a soccer match and every fucktard will forget about it. From South America to Europe.