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Brazil’s constitution guarantees freedom of expression without censorship. That’s the whole issue. Everything else is noise. If the secret censorship orders were legal, X would have complied. It also has nothing to do with Musk since X has a CEO making these decisions.

Also your comment is misinformation - you know, the kind of thing this judge in Brazil would send you to jail for. Specifically this part:

> X went so far as to close its office so as not to have to answer legal orders

They closed their office because Alexandre de Moraes, the judge issuing these unilateral censorship orders in secret without public transparency, also decided to threaten Twitter/X’s legal representative with fines and jail time. He also threatened to seize their personal financial assets (and already froze those accounts). So X had no choice but to close their Brazilian office to avoid having their employees or representation threatened and jailed.