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Several public intellectuals have banded together in support of Brazilian judge Alexandre de Moraes’s suspension of X in the country. Moraes banned access to the platform in Brazil after a lengthy public feud with Elon Musk over free speech. The X CEO had refused Moraes’s request that he ban certain accounts, citing censorship concerns.
✊ Our CEO @avilarenata is one of over 50 activists and intellectuals who signed a public letter denouncing the #BigTech lobby against #DigitalSovereignty after X’s court ban in Brazil.
You can sign it too: https://t.co/LxuKBTr6E3 #Support_Brazil #AgainstBigTech pic.twitter.com/SrBaG17X5K
— Open Knowledge Foundation (@[email protected]) (@OKFN) September 17, 2024
Scholars including Thomas Piketty and Yanis Varoufakis have sided with Moraes, arguing in the open letter that Musk’s noncompliance was part of a “broader effort to restrict the ability of sovereign nations to define a digital development agenda free from the control of mega-corporations based in the United States”. Who are the real authoritarians?
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