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Okay so I didn't proofread this post, so if there's anything I got wrong please tell me but I really felt the need to explain this to the usamerican website:

Yesterday Twitter got banned from Brazil. Like, "government banned it" kind of ban. If you are caught using a VPN to access Twitter, you'll have to pay a fine worth of R$50.000 reais, or U$ 8911,94 dollars. Is the ban going to last more than, like, two weeks? Proooobably not, but what matters is that it got BANNED.

Is the brazilian government censoring Twitter? Only if you consider making Grimes' ex, aka Elon Musk, suffer consequences to his own actions censoring. AKA, no, it's not a censorship, this is just law being followed.

Okay, what the fuck did Grimes' ex do to get it banned? Not following brazilian law. But, loooong story short: You know how Twitter gave a permanent ban to certain people from the alt-right thanks to them disseminating racist, sexist and antivax propaganda, amongst other extremely dangerous things and fake news? This has happened in multiple countries (remember when Trump got banned from Twitter?), including in Brazil. Normally, this happens thanks to the government of said country giving out orders for Twitter to do so. The same thing happened in Brazil previously, except that this time, Musk decided to throw a tantrum, accusing the brazilian government of censorship, ignoring the fact that the same fucking thing happens all the time all around the world.

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So, brazilian government says "ban these guys". Twitter goes "OK". Elon then goes "actually no", and unbans these accounts, going against direct government orders. Now, enters another guy in this story: Alexandre de Moraes, nicknamed "Xandão" by brazilians, also known as "just" the guy in charge of the brazilian Supreme Court (who I'll refer as "STF" from now on!). He's the one who told Musk to keep up the ban. Musk accused him of censorship, despite the fact that these profiles were spreading EXTREMELY DANGEROUS MISINFORMATION. Moraes is now being the face of the brazilian "censorship", but by all means and accounts, he's doing his job. What he is doing is not illegal, and also correct. He's NO SAINT, mind you, but he's doing the right (or at least the better) thing here.

So Moraes goes "what you're doing here is illegal". Musk goes "uhm actually I'm above the law, you see. Because I own Twitter". Moraes goes "no, you're going to get punished by this, Twitter is going to court". Musk goes "no", and SOMEHOW, MAKES THE SITUATION WORSE. NONONONONO. LEMME TELL YOU WHAT THIS GUY DID.

For Twitter to go to court, it needs a legal representative, right? WELL. WHAT IF IT DOESN'T HAVE A LEGAL REPRESENTATIVE, THEN?

"This doesn't make any sense, companies need to have these people", unless you fire everyone from your company and then closes it doors. "What". That's what Elon decided to do: Fire everyone working at Twitter's brazilian office and then close its doors. There's no company in Brazil anymore! Thereby, no one needs to go to court!

So, still insisting on keeping literal nazis unbanned from Twitter, and now having NO people in Brazil working for it, there was literally nothing else for Alexandre de Moraes to do. Twitter already had to pay huge fines before Musk decided to close its doors! He kept on escalating the conflict! Moraes KEPT TELLING HIM to get his shit together and RESPECT BRAZILIAN LAW. So, two days ago, there's the last thing he could have done:

Gave Twitter - and Musk - 24 hours to appoint a legal representative, or have Twitter banned from Brazil.

Once again, this is not censorship. Whatever you hear about Moraes censoring people or abusing his power, that's a lie. This. Is. Not. Censorship. The procedure (asking the company to ban the harmful accounts, have them pay fines, make them go to court, ban the app) is what it is in brazilian law, and I know that because I studied this law! It's literally part of the only two laws that I know about!

Anyways, Musk still thought he was above law, and now brazilians can't use Twitter anymore. We aren't expecting Twitter to actually die here, and we aren't too worried about it for now. However, there's another important part of this plot.

You see, there are many news sources that are either accusing Moraes of censorship, or that WILL accuse him of doing so. These guys are wrong. If a gringo like Musk thinks they're above brazilian law, they will have to pay for the consequences. The USA has a history of fucking up with brazilian politics as recent as during our 2018 and 2022 elections, and Musk fucking around and finding out is just another added level to this. If you want to know more about how the USA fucked us over, I recommend studying the brazilian military dictatorship (lasted during 64 to 85), which was sponsored by the USA!

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