How is that not free speech? I wish more companies would be heroic and snub legal orders.

Brazil’s constitution guarantees freedom of expression without censorship. That’s the whole issue. Everything else is noise. If the secret censorship orders were legal, X would have complied. It also has nothing to do with Musk since X has a CEO making these decisions.

Also your comment is misinformation - you know, the kind of thing this judge in Brazil would send you to jail for. Specifically this part:

> X went so far as to close its office so as not to have to answer legal orders

They closed their office because Alexandre de Moraes, the judge issuing these unilateral censorship orders in secret without public transparency, also decided to threaten Twitter/X’s legal representative with fines and jail time. He also threatened to seize their personal financial assets. So X had no choice but to close their Brazilian office to avoid having their employees or representation threatened and jailed.

How do you know that the accounts X failed to block were committing crimes? My understanding is that the judge in this matter hasn't published any information about the block orders or why he issued them.

It's interesting to point out that if your message was a tweet, it could have been classified as misinformation by the judge and have been the target of a secret court order to shadowban your account, request any and all your PII that Twitter might have, and prohibit Twitter from even letting you know.

All that without the possibility of your defense because he has been acting as the judge and the jury.

So much for free speech.

It’s a crime to dishonor corrupt judges.