Thread by @ggreenwald

A bill in Brazil is rapidly lurching toward approval that would vest the government more power to control social media than any country in the democratic world.

We'll report on it tonight on @SystemUpdate_: it empowers the state to decree Truth, and censor/punish dissent to it.

The bill would create something similar to what Homeland Security tried to implement with its own Ministry of Truth and #Resistance fanatic @wiczipedia.

But Brazil's bill makes even that extremist effort seem mild. And Europe is looking to Brazil to see how far they can go.

I've repeatedly reported on the radical censorship powers seized by Brazil's Supreme Court - one so extreme that even the NYT and AP expressed grave concern. I wrote about the multiple ways this law is dangerous for @folha - here's the English version:

www1.folha.uol.com.br/internacional/…

Here's the January @AP article on the bizarre spectacle that the Brazilian left has united behind a judge they long considered an enemy and denounced as a fascist: because he's now censoring their adversaries. Read about the dangers far beyond Brazil:

apnews.com/article/jair-b…