Comments by "Digital Nomad" (@digitalnomad9985) on "Brazil Bans and Criminalizes Elon Musk's X - Glenn Greenwald on Worldwide Free Speech Ramifications" video.

@Tupandemia Apparently due to a translation problem, some Brazilian correspondents seem to think that @Delusionalwanderluster advocated cutting electrical power. He did not. @D advocated turning off either X or Starlink, it wasn't clear which.
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Musk censors ILLEGAL posts (calling for violence, facilitating or advocating crimes including child abuse) and maybe racist or race supremacist posts. He DOES NOT censor his political opponents, as is obvious if you read anything on X. He is not responding emotionally, as you imply, he is adhering to the principle he bought Twitter to defend: freedom of expression. The Brazilian government has demanded that X censor and dox their political opposition. Despots always make this sort of abuse "legal", but that doesn't make it right. If the law of the land trumps human rights, then we need to apologize to the Nuremberg defendants. The executors of the Final Solution were obeying local law. History has harshly judged those who appeased tyrannous regimes, and rightly so. The side that tries to settle a dispute of fact by the use of force is the obscurantist side, every time. This is how you know you are evil. All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing. Musk is consistent in all countries. A champion of the people's rights, voice, and power.
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If you think that conservative content is the path to easy money, you haven't the merest clue about the media landscape. Every conservative spokesman goes into the field knowing he could make many times more hawking the other side. The side underwritten by oodles of well connected billionaire donors. The side that never has to worry about demonitization, cancellation, censorship or subsidized industrial strength slander, harassing litigation, organized subsidized pre-pardoned harassment and outright naked violence, and political prosecution from a lockstep monolithic power bloc of the bureaucratic state, legacy and state sponsored media, the electronic gatekeepers, their shady cynical oligarchs, and their many dupes and henchmen. It just irks the hell out of you that we work-stained Bob Cratchits in our deplorable masses can glean a ha'pence here, a tu'pence there and have the unmitigated gall to pool our penury and prayers; our blood, sweat, tears, and toil; our individually feeble voices and indomitable goodwill to collectively support a few brave and talented men and women to publish some genteel and diffident criticism against the most powerful corrupt political machine the world has known. "It's not FAIR", sobs the crybully in agony as he lays on the whip. "There oughta be a LAW!!" It never occurred to anyone in the history of mankind to speak the truth to power FOR MONEY, for good and sufficient reason. It's bad for business.
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Musk is adhering to the principle he bought Twitter to defend: freedom of expression. The Brazilian government has demanded that X censor and dox their political opposition. Despots always make this sort of abuse "legal", but that doesn't make it right. If the law of the land trumps human rights, then we need to apologize to the Nuremberg defendants. The executors of the Final Solution were obeying local law. History has harshly judged those who appeased tyrannous regimes, and rightly so. The side that tries to settle a dispute of fact by the use of force is the obscurantist side, every time. This is how you know you are evil. All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing. Musk is consistent in all countries. A champion of the people's rights, voice, and power.
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@facbl Don't worry about Musk doing as @robchandler755 suggests. The Brazilian government has frozen SpaceX bank accounts in Brazil, but Musk has vowed to continue to provide Internet service to existing Brazilian customers for free until this is properly resolved. Your oppressors may have cut you off from X, but Musk will do what he can to save your access to information.
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@yanizeski The reason why he refused the order is because he believes in freedom of information. X has been blocked by the Brazilian government. Do you mean cut off Starlink? That would defeat his purpose of freedom of information. Brazil has frozen Starlink Brazilian accounts, so he can't get subscription fees. He is continuing to provide service to existing Brazilian customers for free. The oppressors of Brazil WANT the people cut off from information. Musk will try as much as he can to keep them from succeeding. Playing it this way is good for business in the long term and helps counter Brazilian government attempt to paint Musk as evil.
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You have thieves, criminals and scammers running your government. The side that tries to settle a dispute of fact by the use of force is the obscurantist side, every time. This is how you know you are evil.
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If you believe that freedom of speech is a fundamental human right, as the founders of our country and the authors and ratifiers of our Constitution did, then a law abridging that freedom is despotic and illegitimate. Strictly speaking, Musk has not broken a law, anyway. He refused to submit to judicial blackmail. If the law of the land trumps human rights, then we need to apologize to the Nuremberg defendants. The executors of the Final Solution were obeying local law. History has harshly judged those who appeased tyrannous regimes, and rightly so. I don't know what that "act differently in different countries" crack is supposed to mean. Musk championed free speech and not only defied but called out the US government for censorship FIRST, before Brazil. Remember the "Twitter files"? And he also defied the British government threats against him. He is consistent in all countries. A champion of the people's rights, voice, and power. The side that seeks to settle a dispute of fact by the use of power is the obscurantist side, every time. That's how you know you're the bad guy.
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You respond to an argument with facts and data with a slanderous assertion. That's feeble. The side that tries to settle a dispute of fact by the use of force is the obscurantist side, every time. This is how you know you are evil.
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No, you support oppression. The side that tries to settle a dispute of fact by the use of force is the obscurantist side, every time. This is how you know you are evil.
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No American is forcing Brazilians to do anything. Greenwald is reporting the news in Brazil. Musk is adhering to the principle he bought Twitter to defend: freedom of expression. The Brazilian government has demanded that X censor and dox their political opposition. Despots always make this sort of abuse "legal", but that doesn't make it right. If the law of the land trumps human rights, then we need to apologize to the Nuremberg defendants. The executors of the Final Solution were obeying local law. History has harshly judged those who appeased tyrannous regimes, and rightly so. The side that tries to settle a dispute of fact by the use of force is the obscurantist side, every time. This is how you know you are evil. All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing. Musk is consistent in all countries. A champion of the people's rights, voice, and power.
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Germany voted in Hitler, and his henchmen fled to Brazil after the war. The side that tries to settle a dispute of fact by the use of force is the obscurantist side, every time. This is how you know you are evil.
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Elon gives the same answer to any country that asks him to silence political opposition. The answer is no. He has defied first the US government on this point, the UK government, and I think at least one other government besides Brazil. He is consistent in all countries. A champion of the people's rights, voice, and power.
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So some of the implementers of the Final Solution DID escape to Brazil after all. If the law of the land trumps human rights, then we need to apologize to the Nuremberg defendants. The executors of the Final Solution were obeying local law. History has harshly judged those who appeased tyrannous regimes, and rightly so. The side that tries to settle a dispute of fact by the use of force is the obscurantist side, every time. This is how you know you are evil.
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You misrepresent the situation. The Brazilian government has demanded that X censor and dox their political opposition. Despots always make this sort of abuse "legal", but that doesn't make it right. If the law of the land trumps human rights, then we need to apologize to the Nuremberg defendants. The executors of the Final Solution were obeying local law. History has harshly judged those who appeased tyrannous regimes, and rightly so. The side that tries to settle a dispute of fact by the use of force is the obscurantist side, every time. This is how you know you are evil.
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The side that tries to settle a dispute of fact by the use of force is the obscurantist side, every time. This is how you know you are evil.
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