Bolsonaro and conservative and right-wing leaders praise Musk after decision to contradict Moraes

Former president Jair Bolsonaro and conservative and right-wing parliamentarians also went to X (formerly Twitter) to praise Elon Musk, owner of the social network, who on Saturday night announced his intention to restore access, in Brazil, to all suspended accounts by order of the Federal Supreme Court or the Superior Electoral Court.

Bolsonaro republished, on Saturday, the video of his meeting with the billionaire, when he was still in the Presidency of the Republic. He did not specifically refer to Musk’s announcement, calling it simply a “myth of our freedom”:

The federal deputy and columnist for People’s Gazette Marcel van Hattem (Novo-RS) is among the most active parliamentarians on social media after Musk’s announcement. He published a series of messages and republished the video of journalist Michael Shellenberger, responsible for publishing the Twitter Files, stating that “Brazil is on the brink of dictatorship” and that “Lula is participating in this impulse towards totalitarianism” – Shellenberger lived in Brazil and speaks Portuguese.

At the end of the night, Van Hattem also published the audio of a conversation with Shellenberger and guests such as Ana Paula Henkel and Hélio Beltrão.

The former Lava Jato prosecutor, former federal deputy and columnist for People’s Gazette Deltan Dallagnol, in addition to retweeting several other messages, wrote a response to the Union’s attorney general, Jorge Messias, refuting each of the arguments used by Messias to defend the regulation of social networks. Deltan states, for example, that “the TSE removed as ‘fake news’ a series of contents that were OPINIONS and not facts and, therefore, could not be classified as false FACTS. He went so far as to create a concept that does not exist in the world of ‘informational disorder’ to curb content that is truly critical of Lula”, and that “the TSE canceled a series of social media accounts (Monark, PCO, Marcos do Val) due to posts specifics”, adding that “if there was something illegal, specific posts could be removed, but never entire accounts, which is the modern equivalent of cutting out people’s tongues, to prior censorship, and has no constitutional or legal provision”.

Also federal deputy and columnist for GazetteNikolas Ferreira (PL-MG) took the opportunity to recall the need for the CPI on Abuse of Authority, which already has enough signatures in the Chamber of Deputies, but depends on a decision by the president of the house, Arthur Lira (PP-AL), to be established.

Ferreira also recovered old messages from PT members criticizing Alexandre de Moraes on the occasion of his appointment to the STF, in 2017, during Michel Temer’s government. In one of them, Gleisi Hoffmann, current president of the PT, stated that the nomination was “harmful to democracy”.

Senator Magno Malta (PL-ES) also pointed out the contradictions of PTism, which even today calls the impeachment of Dilma Rousseff and her replacement by Temer a “coup”: “whoever calls Temer a coup plotter in this case would be saying that you became a minister as the result of a coup. These people would not be producing misinformation and fake news, minister? What to do?”

Federal deputy Gustavo Gayer (PL-GO) went to X even before Musk’s decision, commenting on the billionaire’s message in which he asked Moraes why he demanded “so much censorship in Brazil”.

After the announcement of the suspension of restrictions, Gayer returned to the social network and, among other comments, refuted the left’s requests for the resumption of the Fake News PL, also called the “Censorship PL”.

Until this Sunday morning, X accounts suspended by court order still cannot be seen by network users in Brazil, and are only available to those using a VPN. In the announcement, Musk did not detail which accounts he intended to restore, nor when and how this would happen.