Bolsonarists celebrate the Trump administration’s announcement of restricting access to, which should reach the minister, (Supreme Court).
The measure exposes once again how the right has appropriated in the last years of the flag of freedom of expression. But recent republican actions in the US have placed the credibility of this narrative and the possibility of rightists around the world to appropriate it.
In less than five months, the Trump government promoted students who support the Palestinian cause of universities not aligned with their worldview and announced that it will make one of student visa candidates.
The measures have been strongly criticized for confronting the first amendment, which offers in the US one of the Brazilian Constitution – in the American case, even discriminatory speeches are tolerated as long as they do not constitute imminent threat.
Of course, STF measures adopted in recent years with the support of the self -adenant progressive field, such as blocking platforms and profiles on social networks, still give fuel to the vision of the court as a censor.
But the Republican’s actions in his second term give a rare opportunity for the left to react on the front of freedom of expression.
Given the mastery of the far right in the networks, their opponents were confined to the role of defenders of platform regulation, which was soon rang by censorship critics.
President Lula’s political field did not help support left dictatorships that pursue opponents neither, especially in university media, the mobilization of concepts such as “place of speech” and the realization of protests that prevented or tumultured speeches outside what the progressive consensus is considered.
It was little good to say that it was Bolsonarism who violated freedom of expression by systematically attacking journalists, putting public data in indefinite confidentiality and endangering until the possibility of citizens expressing their will by vote, as seen for investigations into the coup plot.
Report of the organization Article 19 even put Brazil as after the departure of Jair Bolsonaro (PL) of the Presidency of the Republic.
But the bombing of discourses on the networks, the suspension of profiles with justifications and images of riots and lectures being in universities giving fuel to the bolsonist narrative protective of the free circulation of ideas.
It is now the Trump government, the first -time ally of Bolsonaros, who retrained journalists who do not follow their guidelines and produces images of students with divergent opinions, or even that,. Seeing who in politics, if someone, will still be able to put themselves as a bulwark of freedom of expression.
