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🗓️ 29 April 2024
⏱️ 7 minutes
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0:00.0 | Join us now is Sean Morgan. He's an independent journalist who runs the Sean Morgan report. |
0:05.5 | And guess what? He lives in Brazil. So we're hoping he could provide some clarification because, look, I know the Judiciary Committee is supposedly stepping in on behalf of Elon Musk here in the United States. |
0:16.7 | But I've also seen reporting from Reuters suggesting that Musk is now complying with the content |
0:22.1 | moderation orders in Brazil. |
0:24.1 | So do you have a better idea of what is going on, Sean? |
0:28.6 | Right. |
0:29.6 | So first, Elon Musk talks a really big game. |
0:32.6 | He puts the Supreme Court Justice Alexander Morais on the hot seat, on front street, basically |
0:40.3 | introduces him to the entire world as the chief censor of the world and says, I'm not going |
0:46.3 | to comply with your unconstitutional demands. And then his lawyer writes a different letter that says, |
0:52.3 | we promise we will comply with all Brazilian laws. |
0:55.5 | So I think he had to make a pivot because you can't tell, |
0:59.4 | you can't tell a government you're not going to comply with their laws. |
1:02.8 | They'll make your life a living hell. |
1:05.0 | So I think he said what he had to say, |
1:07.5 | and he's probably going to take the legal route instead of the illegal route, |
1:12.2 | instead of not complying, he'll probably make some kind of attempt to make it so that he can prove |
1:19.4 | that he doesn't have to comply because it's not legal to comply before he actually doesn't comply. |
1:25.2 | But here's the good news that, yes, there has been a chilling effect. |
1:28.9 | It's been around for years. If you're a politician in Brazil and you go against the grain, |
1:34.3 | you could be completely just either dethrottled or just removed from the conversation, from the public discourse. |
1:42.3 | So it's really scary how much this one justice is sort of |
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