Brazil Bolsonaro: Facebook told to block accounts of president’s supporters

Re:Brazil Bolsonaro: Facebook told to block accounts of pres... by sizeofchar on Sunday August 02, 2020 @05:48AM (#24027591)

There is nothing independent with Brazil’s court. They are just dismantling the executive powers so they and their own can be kept on power.

In Brazil, the Supreme Court is filled by presidential choice. Brazil had 25 consecutive years with social democratic and socialists presidents, so that every justice currently have been put there by them. Now that democracy turned to the right-wing, the losers aren’t accepting the results and the reforms being made, that takes out their privileges and positions of power.

I know barely nothing about India, but what you described certainly is not correlated to what is happening in Brazil.

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Re:Brazil Bolsonaro: Facebook told to block accounts of pres... by gavribirnbaum on Sunday August 02, 2020 @05:54AM (#24027613)

True. You cannot expect the judicial to be apolitical if it is appointed by the other two highly political branches of government. But we pretend it is apolitical in Brazil and in the US.

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Re:Brazil Bolsonaro: Facebook told to block accounts of pres... by mc32 on Sunday August 02, 2020 @08:25AM (#24028243)

There is a difference between political philosophy and being political.

A judge may be liberal or conservative but it doesn’t follow that they would represent a party platform.

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