BRAZIL BANS X, PUNISHES CITIZENS FOR FREE SPEECH
The Highwire with Del Bigtree
The Highwire with Del Bigtree
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🗓️ 16 September 2024
⏱️ 15 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | We're going to move into now censorship but at this point any politician that's going to take |
| 0:05.2 | office or really that's in office at any level of power from municipal to the leader of |
| 0:10.0 | the country they need to address this head on. |
| 0:13.0 | They need to be open about this and open about the plans for society moving forward because the |
| 0:17.7 | implications cannot be understated. |
| 0:20.8 | And this is, because things are happening in big swaths before it was happening in the |
| 0:25.8 | shadows literally called shadow banning things like that now there's gigantic things |
| 0:29.9 | are moving so fast just just recently we had X the platform formerly known as |
| 0:34.4 | Twitter was completely ghosted is gone in Brazil now so no longer can over |
| 0:41.1 | 200 million people in Brazil access this platform. |
| 0:44.3 | X blocked in Brazil after a Supreme Court panel uphold suspension order. |
| 0:48.8 | Why do they have that? |
| 0:50.0 | Well, the court asked X to take their moderators to take down accounts that they said violated |
| 0:55.2 | political misinformation and hate speech and they did not do that obviously so Supreme Court ruled that this is no longer available to people. |
| 1:03.2 | In fact, they actually froze the assets of Elon Musk's satellite company, Starlink, in order |
| 1:08.8 | to pay for any potential fines that Brazil did that. |
| 1:12.1 | They're thinking about kicking them out of Brazil completely |
| 1:15.1 | as far as pulling their license to ever broadcast there from a social media company so that's |
| 1:20.1 | that's very serious and a lot of people were I mean this is platforms that we're always trying to reach new audiences here at the Highwire |
| 1:27.8 | These are platforms that we use people listening right now. We're streaming on X people in Brazil cannot listen to this. They'll have to go to our |
| 1:34.4 | website or another place that we're streaming. But there was a test. |
| 1:39.2 | And you remember when your news agencies, the United States of America used to use stories like this and opportunities like this to show what it looks like when you don't have free speech and how important it is to live in the United States of America and thank God we have free speech here and |
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