Freedom of expression is under attack. Trump is destroying university autonomy, holding students for their political opinions and threatening.
The fault of this authoritarian offensive is one of those who were on the side of the Elon Musks of this world, against the Alexanders of Moraes of this world, saying that he defended freedom of expression.
If you did a scandal when scammers on social networks were suspended by 2022, I regret, it was you the one who arrested the young US students. If you have given reason to the Boconarists against, you have stated if you said you were right against the Brazilian, or opposed the “factor-chucos”, you are personally responsible for the establishment of political censorship in the granting of American visas.
There, as here, the question has always been simple: there are powerful movements that seek to destroy democracy. Bolsonarism here, the trumpper there. When democratic institutions reacted, whose side did you?
From a practical point of view, that’s all that matters, son. You think you acted at first it doesn’t matter, your attachment to the performance “above polarization” doesn’t matter. If you stayed with Jair, Musk or Trump, you worked for Trump’s authoritarianism and infinitely more violent things that would have happened in Brazil if Bolsonaro’s coup had been successful.
You made him playing “Freedom of Expression” in Easy Mode, “as thirtyed 30 years ago, before the emergence of mass authoritarian movements with strong institutional penetration and real ability to threaten democracy.
A few years ago, I participated in a debate about Alexandre de Moraes with, columnist of this Sheet. As a lawyer, Greenwald, who is Jewish, defended the rights of a neo -Nazi militant. The question Glenn never answered me is this: Until the month of 1933 would he still defend the rights of the Nazis if he was in Berlin? What if the stakes weren’t just the risk of an idiot to offend people on Twitter, but the risk of victory of a powerful movement that would destroy democracy?
It is worth checking out what the STF critics are doing in the face of the tricky libertic offensive.
Last week the deputy gave his support for the trumpper censorship (“half-tigal communists”). And, the “victims” of the regulation participated in the communication seminar, the main Brazilian authoritarian organization, and heard that “they are on the right side”. The Trump government itself, guilty of the crimes listed in the first paragraph, threatens to punish the Brazilian STF for the defense of democracy. Musk was part of the Trump administration until last week.
The American example shows that the defense of freedom of expression by the far right of Musk, Bolsonaro and Trump was a estelionato. If you fell on this, the tip is: the next time you call you to defend the right to march, it costs nothing to open the window and check if the fascists are marching on Rome.
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