A group of Republican lawmakers are calling on the U.S. State Department to take a decisive stand against Brazil’s campaign to crush free speech online.
Rep. María Elvira Salazar (R-FL), Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) and three other congressmen wrote a Sept. 18 letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken, addressing Brazilian Supreme Court Chief Justice Alexandre de Moraes’s censorship campaign and vendetta against American company X. The lawmakers urged Blinken to deny or revoke existing visas for de Moraes and any of his colleagues complicit in the un-American effort to silence free speech online.
“Chief Justice de Moraes has a well-documented history of curbing free speech, particularly against individuals and groups with conservative political views,” read the letter, co-signed by Salazar, Scott and Reps. Carlos A. Giménez (R-FL), Rich McCormick…
