🇧🇷❌❌❗️ — Brazilian Supreme Court Justice and de facto Dictator of Brazil, Alexandre de Moraes, issues an R$ 50,000 (~10,000 USD) fine for any Brazilian citizen using VPNs to overturn the ban on Twitter/X

➡️ Such a thing also happened when the same justice ordered the shutdown of Telegram in the past

➡️ As always, it is an order virtually impossible to enforce

https://news.1rj.ru/str/BellumActaNews/128215

🇧🇷⚖️🚫❌ — Alexandre de Moraes (STF) has ordered the removal of 𝕏 in Brazil within 24 hours, under penalty of malfeasance for those who do not comply with the order.

"The president of Anatel, Carlos Manuel Baigorri, must be notified, including through electronic means, to immediately take all necessary measures to enforce this decision, and report back to this Court within 24 hours at the latest."

📝 Admin Comment | In admin's honest view, in a measure to crackdown on the Brazilian opposition and save Democracy, Moraes just handed an delicious cake on the hands of it:

— Technically, all the "non-politized normies" will flee the network for "safe spots" as Meta Networks, Telegram and similars
— Brazilian virtual space will face the same phenomenon that Iranian, Belarusian, Chinese and Venezuelan ones face currently: It being overwhelming & largely a space supported by the opposition's narrative and its points of view.
— Political radicals will no longer see any kind of restriction to expose their views and desires
— Public figures will be purged from their biggest opinion chamber,
— Brazilian Government Propaganda, which relies on Twitter/X for 40% of its viewership, will be crushed even on the eyes of non-political normies
— The Brazilian opposition narrative that Brazil is under a dictatorship (it is) is entirely justified

https://news.1rj.ru/str/BellumActaNews/128216

🇧🇷 — For my Brazilian homies, I leave these services below:

➡️ https://protonvpn.com/

➡️ https://mullvad.net/pt

➡️ https://www.tunnelbear.com/

➡️ https://nordvpn.com/

🇧🇷🤡🇧🇷⚖️🚫👤❌ — Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) supported the action to block the social network X across the country

➡️ Lula's support for Moraes was signaled this morning, a day after Musk said he would not comply with Moraes's order to resume X's representation in Brazil.

“If the Supreme Court has made a decision that requires a citizen to comply with certain things, then they must comply, or else they will have to take other measures. It’s not because someone has a lot of money that they can disrespect!

If not, this country will never be sovereign. This country is not one with a sense of inferiority, where just because someone is American shouts, we get scared. This person has to accept the rules of this country, and if this country has made a decision through the Supreme Court, they have to comply. If it applies to me, it applies to him.”

💬 The leftist president also stated that the company, like any other foreign entity operating in the country, needs to have legal representation as required by law, but he avoided commenting on whether Moraes’s orders are legal or not.

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👤❌⚠️🇧🇷⚖️ — The Global Government Affairs account on the social network 𝕏 (formerly Twitter) confirms that it has not appointed a new legal representative in Brazil, already anticipating that the network will be blocked in the country, and challenges the other members of the Supreme Court: "The colleagues of Minister Alexandre de Moraes in the Supreme Federal Court are either unable or unwilling to confront him."

📝 See the full statement below:

"Soon, we expect Judge Alexandre de Moraes will order X to be shut down in Brazil – simply because we would not comply with his illegal orders to censor his political opponents. These enemies include a duly elected Senator and a 16-year-old girl, among others.

When we attempted to defend ourselves in court, Judge de Moraes threatened our Brazilian legal representative with imprisonment. Even after she resigned, he froze all of her bank accounts. Our challenges against his manifestly illegal actions were either dismissed or ignored. Judge de Moraes’ colleagues on the Supreme Court are either unwilling or unable to stand up to him.

We are absolutely not insisting that other countries have the same free speech laws as the United States. The fundamental issue at stake here is that Judge de Moraes demands we break Brazil’s own laws. We simply won’t do that. In the days to come, we will publish all of Judge de Moraes’ illegal demands and all related court filings in the interest of transparency.

Unlike other social media and technology platforms, we will not comply in secret with illegal orders. To our users in Brazil and around the world, X remains committed to protecting your freedom of speech."

Global Government Affairs (@GlobalAffairs) on 𝕏 🖇

🇺🇸🇺🇸⚠️🇧🇷🤡⚖️ — American Senator Ted Cruz comments on the blocking of the social network 𝕏 in Brazil:

Brazil is banning X for one reason: to suppress free speech and thought. Unsurprisingly, Lula supports this decision, because he too seeks to ban free speech and thought. Biden courted Lula, celebrated his election, and called him a personal friend. That too is unsurprising. The Biden-Harris administration has shown nothing but contempt for free speech here in the United States.

Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) on 𝕏 🖇

🇨🇳❌🇵🇭 — In a new wave of provocations by Mainland China authorities against Philippines, a Chinese Coast Guard vessel has rammed a Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) near the Escoda Shoal, which is in the Exclusive Economic Zone of the Philippines, for three times intentionally and deliberately

➡️ The provocations by Chinese authorities against Southeast Asian nations are escalating since the start of 2024, as the PLA-N activities in the South China sea increase

🇧🇷⚖️🤝❌ — The Brazilian Supreme Electoral Court, despite the Ban on X by Supreme Federal Court's Justice Alexandre de Moraes (which used to be President of such court until earlier this year), still posting on the social media platform to promote its apps for the elections

➡️ Noteworthy that the municipal elections in Brazil are set to happen in 1 month from now and the ban took place just in time for the campaigns to start

🔗 TSE (@TSEjusbr)

🇮🇳🏳️‍🌈 India allows LGBTQ persons to open joint bank accounts and nominate partners as beneficiaries

Union finance ministry issued an advisory on Wednesday, August 28, clarifying that persons from the LGBTQ community face no restrictions in opening joint bank accounts or nominating their partners as beneficiaries.

This advisory follows the Supreme Court's order dated October 17, 2023, in the case of Supriyo@Supriya Chakraborty and another vs Union of India. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has also issued a clarification to all scheduled commercial banks on August 21, 2024, regarding the same matter, advisory said.

In 2015, the RBI had already directed banks to include a separate column for 'third gender' in their forms and applications, enabling transgender persons to open bank accounts and access related services.

Subsequently, several banks have introduced services specifically designed for the transgender community. For instance, ESAF Small Finance Bank Ltd launched the 'Rainbow Savings Account' in 2022, offering exclusive features such as high savings rates and advanced debit card facilities to transgender customers.

🔗 https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/india-business/lgbtq-persons-can-open-joint-bank-accounts-nominate-partners-as-beneficiaries/amp_articleshow/112911015.cms

🇧🇷⚖️❌❌ — Documents leaked by Twitter/X Administration shows that Brazilian Supreme Federal Court asked, in a unconstitutional move, for Twitter Support to remove the account of Rightist Senator & Brazilian Army Veteran, Marcos do Val

👤❌❌🇧🇷⚖️ — Alexandre Files: The official profile on the social network 𝕏 promises to reveal all the unlawful directives issued to 𝕏 by Alexandre de Moraes of the Supreme Federal Court (STF)

Today, we begin shining a light on the abuses of Brazilian law committed by Alexandre de Moraes.

We have been forced to share these orders because there is no transparency from the court, and the people who are being censored have no recourse to appeal. Our own appeals have been ignored.

And now the people of Brazil are denied access to X.

Secret justice is no justice at all. Today, we say that must change.

Alexandre Files (@AlexandreFiles) on 𝕏 🖇