The censorship regime that threatens Europe has crossed the Atlantic and has landed in the New World.
Brazil became the latest example of a reputed “democracy” opting for a totalitarian evisceration of free speech in the name of combating “misinformation.”
On Saturday, a Brazilian court ruled that the social media platform X would be banned from the country and that anyone caught using a VPN—a virtual private network—to access the website would be fined the equivalent of $9,000. That’s around the average annual income in Brazil, according to some estimates.
On Monday, the country’s highest court unanimously upheld the decision. The one judge who opposed the fine said that people who go on X shouldn’t be punished unless they promote “racism, fascism, or Nazism, obstruct criminal investigations, or incite crimes in general.”
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