Felipe Neto defends censorship by the STF and says that whoever complains wants to click

Lulista YouTuber, Felipe Neto, came out in defense of the censorship of social media profiles imposed by ministers of the Federal Supreme Court (STF) and said that the newspapers that are denouncing the abuses “want clicks”.

Neto also defended the regulation of social networks and called the defense of freedom of expression “pathetic mongrelism”.

Felipe Neto’s statement was shared on his social networks after newspapers Newspaper It is The State of São Paulo (Estadão) published editorials, this weekend, against the censorship imposed by the STF.

Folha cited minister Alexandre de Moraes by name and Estadão defended “the legitimate criticism of the Supreme Court”.

The criticism from the newspapers comes in the wake of the revelations, last week, of the scandal known as “Twitter Files Brazil”, in which the owner of X (former Twitter) Elon Musk denounces the pressure from politicians and part of the Brazilian judiciary to censor profiles not aligned to the left.

“I want to understand where these Folha and Estadão columnists were when Twitter banned 150,000 accounts after the attack on the Capitol. Or when Youtube took down several Brazilian channels in Adpocalypse. Why does the STF banning half a dozen for the same reasons as the Capitol seems to be unacceptable, but Twitter doing this with 150,000, is that ok? This talk of ‘we shouldn’t allow accounts to be banned by the STF’ sounds a lot like pathetic mutts. For these columnists, a CEO like Zuckerberg or a company like Google can decide to ban an account for whatever reason they want, but the country’s Supreme Court cannot. How many accounts are suspended for no reason? How many are banned without the right to any complaints? Countless. You probably know someone who has lost an account and never even found out what happened. What this columnist group wants is to show that they understand a subject they discovered yesterday. Where were they in the debates we have had for years on this topic? Now they belch confidence and arrogance when giving their opinions, ordering paragraphs as deep as a saucer. As long as there is no Digital Constitution, we will continue in this scorched earth world, where many people have opinions, but few people study and even fewer people truly participate. It’s a shame that these so-called intellectuals reveal that, in the end, they’re just after clicks. And shouting that the STF practices censorship undoubtedly gets a lot of attention,” wrote Felipe Neto on his profile on the social network X, this Sunday (14).

After the scandal over censorship on Twitter broke out, Neto made several attacks on Musk in publications on the social network X.

In one of these attacks, the YouTuber published fake news to accuse Musk of “helping Saudi Arabian dictators capture people through tweets”.

After being checked by notes from the social network community, Felipe Neto backtracked, but maintained his attacks on Musk.