> It has bearing in one key way, which is that censorship is mostly a tool of authoritarian governments

Wrong. This isn't censorship, bro. It's the final repercussion following repeated attempts by Musk/X to ignore demands from the Brazilian legal system which were made in accordance with Brazilian law as written by congresspeople duly elected by the Brazilian people.

> forced censorship of elected officials, claims of protecting national interests, claiming a lack of local representatives (which obviously Brazil doesn’t require of millions of websites).

This is inaccurate again. The judge didn't say "put a local representative here or we close you down". The judge said "you must comply with this order" and Musk said "lol no, we won't" and the judge said "if you want to appeal you must have a legal representative" and Musk said "lol no" and then he got shut down.

> Brazil has a constitutional guarantee to free speech without censorship, so it is more unexpected.

Note X isn't being banned for allowing free speech. It's being banned for repeatedly disrespecting the law. Musk can say he hates the judges guts all he wants! All Brazilians can! But it must not allow its users to incite violence against people or institutions, which _is against the law in Brazil_

> So I’m not sure what you’re even defending here.

I'm defending the rule of law while you keep sinking into the QAnon bias projecting hurr durr my freedoms into other countries when you don't really know what you're yapping about