Social media|Judge Alexandre de Moraes is also behind ex-president Jair Bolsonaro’s eight-year ban.
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Tens of thousands demonstrated in São Paulo for freedom of speech and against censorship.
Jair Bolsonaro inspired the protesters to the streets and demanded the resignation of Alexandre de Moraes.
De Moraes ordered X to be shut down and imposed a fine on vpn cheaters.
The background is the dispute between de Moraes and Elon Musk about X’s operations in Brazil.
Dozens thousands of Brazilians demonstrated in São Paulo on Saturday for freedom of speech and against censorship. The Ministry of the Interior estimates the number of participants at 45,000.
The news agency AFP and a Brazilian newspaper report on the matter, among others O Globo.
Behind the big protest was the closure of the messaging service X, or the former Twitter, in Brazil. The demonstrators had been inspired to the streets by the country’s previous president Jair Bolsonaro.
The protesters also demanded a Supreme Court judge by Alexandre de Moraes separation or separation. Bolsonaro called him a dictator, and his allies in Congress are pushing for his impeachment and impeachment.
“Ulos Moraes”, read a protester’s sign in São Paulo.
It was de Moraes who ordered the closure of X in Brazil last week. He set a daily threat fine of 50,000 reais, or about 8,000 euros, for those who bypass the lock via a VPN virtual network.
X has had about 22 million users in Latin America’s largest country, home to about 215 million people.
“I want to express my objection to the insanity prevailing in our country. We are being censored,” a protester,
a retired computer engineer, told AFP Sergio Luiz Barreira.
In the background is the owner of de Moraes and X, a billionaire Elon Musk’s handwringing about the conditions of the messaging platform in Brazil. In April, De Moraes ordered the shutdown of far-right X user accounts supporting Bolsonaro for spreading fake news, and Musk fought back.
When de Moraes threatened to have the brazen company’s Brazil representative arrested, Musk closed X’s Brazil office in mid-August. De Moraes’ decision to block access to X was officially based on the fact that the company no longer had a legally required representative in Brazil.
Last week, De Moraes also ordered the freezing of the assets of Musk’s Starlink satellite data company in Brazil to ensure X pays outstanding fines.
De Moraes’ extraordinary decisions have aroused even more opposition among independent and liberal Brazilians who previously supported his very strict line against far-right fake news campaigns.
Brazil’s previous president, Jair Bolsonaro, addressed a like-minded crowd at a rally in São Paulo on Saturday.
De Moraes has been a political enemy in the eyes of the Brazilian right for years. In June 2023, as the chairman of the electoral court, he was about to sentence Bolsonaro to an eight-year ban from office. It prevents Bolsonaro from running in the next two presidential elections in 2026 and 2030.
The ban is based on the fact that, as the sitting president, Bolsonaro sowed unfounded doubts about the reliability of the electoral system in the minds of his supporters before the October 2022 presidential elections. Bolsonaro lost to a leftist Luiz Inácio to Lula da Silva with a historically tight result of 49.1–50.9 percent.
Bolsonaro is also threatened with criminal charges, possibly for “attempted coup” and “overturning the democratic rule of law”.
According to the police investigation, he developed a detailed plan to nullify his election defeat and usurp power, and high-ranking commanders of the armed forces were involved in the plot, said the information about the investigation published by the police and the Supreme Court last February.
A week after Lula’s inauguration on January 8, 2023 Bolsonaro’s supporters rushed to the presidential palace, the congress house and the supreme court, causing immeasurable destruction. They vainly call for armed forces to prevent Lula’s reign.
Saturday September 7 was Brazil’s Independence Day. In São Paulo, the largest city in the southern hemisphere, the sea of demonstrators was colored from the country’s flag to the familiar yellow and green, which the Brazilian right has adopted as the color of its displays of power.
As a counterweight to the demonstration in São Paulo, a traditional military parade was organized in the capital, Brasília, followed by the sitting president, Lula.
De Moraes was also in the same enclosure.
Brazilian President Lula (back) greets Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes with a hug during the Independence Day parade on Saturday.
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