This is John Batcher, conversation with Professor Avignelles of the U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies

Institute about Brazil moving against Mosque, the Supreme Court Justice in Brazil, very powerful, an ally of the

President Lula de Silva, turning his attention to X in Brazil that was permitting comments that were,

according to De Maurice, either misinformation or anti-state, moved to shut down X and then because there were no

assets to accumulate shutting down X is impossible, he moved on Starling, where Musk is a minority

stockholder, but in any event it is associated with Musk, so the Tangle becomes Elon Musk's Starlink X versus

the power of the Supreme Court of Brazil. And the professor sets up this contest by noting how we were not objecting or noting how the state

actors who are understood to be tyrannies or or illiberal, is the generous word, had already

established limitations, cages for social media, the Great Wall of China, for example. pages for

example, the great cyber wall of China, for example, the great cyber wall of China.

The professor goes through the list that we permitted thinking, well, they're bad actors.

But now Brazil, bad actor?

No.

But the power of the state.

And the power of the state is also in America. To what extent was the Zuckerberg letter recently about

Zuckerberg having regrets having cooperated or obeyed or been obliged or pushed into obeying the state during COVID or obeying the state in some

fashion during the campaign of 2020 about the laptop associated with the Biden family.

Here the professor summarizes where we are and then turns to Brazil.

More of this tonight.

Well certainly the Supreme Court to head in

Brazil, Lula aligned Alexander de Morice is really an instrument in I think this

broader fight. But to me it is a symbolic of a fight that we're seeing globally between the issues of

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