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The worldwide erosion of support for free speech continues.
Brazil’s attorney general has called for social media platforms in the country to be regulated after Elon Musk threatened to disobey a court order banning certain accounts on X and lashed out ...
SAO PAULO (Reuters) -Media platform X said on Saturday it would close its operations in Brazil "effective immediately" due to what it called "censorship orders" by Brazilian judge Alexandre de Moraes.
In the United States, free speech is a constitutional right that’s much more permissive than in many countries, including Brazil, where de Moraes in April ordered an investigation into CEO Elon Musk over the dissemination of defamatory fake news and another probe over possible obstruction, incitement and criminal organization.
From 30 August 2024 to 8 October 2024, Brazil's Supreme Federal Court judge Alexandre de Moraes imposed a block of X in Brazil. This occurred after the social network's chairman Elon Musk refused to appoint a legal representative in the country, which led Moraes to freeze Starlink's financial assets and impose fines for non-compliance.
Even though most state censorship ended before the period of redemocratization that started in 1985, Brazil still experiences a certain amount of non-official censorship today. The current legislation restricts freedom of expression concerning racism ( Paim Law) [ 1 ] and the Constitution prohibits the anonymity of journalists.
SAO PAULO/BRASILIA (Reuters) -Brazil's telecommunications regulator said on Friday it was suspending access to Elon Musk's X social network in the country to comply with an order from a judge who ...
In a talk delivered at the 2011 Oslo Freedom Forum, he drew attention to the long history of government censorship in that country. [needs independent confirmation] [4] Mesquita worked in Jovem Pan News, Brazilian equivalent to Fox News, [5] but was fired from Jovem Pan News after the events in 2023 Brazilian Congress attack. [6]