Thread by @ggreenwald

BREAKING: The censorship regime in Brazil is growing rapidly, virtually daily now. We just obtained a censorship order that is genuinely shocking, directing multiple social media platforms to *immediately* remove numerous prominent politicians and commentators.

I can't overstate how shocking and dangerous this new censorship order is. It's from the same judge that even the NYT has been warning about as authoritarian: Alexandre de Moraes. Read this NYT article. It was from September. It's now severely escalating:

nytimes.com/2022/09/26/wor…

A sign of how repressive the situation in Brazil is: I've had to spent hours with lawyers even figuring out if I can report this. I've confronted governments around the world and this is the only time I've ever asked: "Should I report on this? Can I safely criticize this judge?"

But the only reason to become a journalist is to do your job no matter the threats and risks.

We'll be on live on Rumble with our @SystemUpdate_ program at its regular time - 7pm ET - to report this and explain the immense dangers of it. It's stunning.

Below is the 2nd article from the NYT on the dangers of this judge's censorship powers, from Oct.

I've never seen a judge in any democracy with this level of power. He's become a venerated hero of the Brazilian left, feared and off-limits from criticism

nytimes.com/2022/10/21/wor…

For the crime of criticizing this Judge - once hated by the Brazilian left as part of a "coup" government until this shocking censorship splurge - I was branded as "pro-terrorist" on Tuesday, trending for days.

The climate here is like 9/11: "with us or with the Terrorists."

The censorship regime implemented in Brazil makes the US and EU look like bastions of liberty.

*Ten* members of Congress - including some with the nation's highest vote totals - have been banned by this judge from social media even though the platforms say they violated no rules

This is not confined to Brazil. Just as Brazilian prosecutors copied the US's indictment of Assange to try to imprison me for my reporting, this censorship model implemented in Brazil will be used by other countries to bar all dissent.

It's a bridge too far even for the NYT.

But the breadth and scope of this order -- directing multiple platforms to immediately ban multiple politicians and analysts *within two hours,* upon threats of major fines - brings this to an all new level.

Join us tonight, 7pm ET, for our live coverage

rumble.com/GGreenwald

What right does a Brazilian judge have to order foreign platforms to ban politicians and journalists from their platform and threaten them with massive fines if they don't censor on command?

Alexandre de Moraes is now making himself Chief Censor not only of Brazil but the world.