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The "rogue Supreme Court Justice" line doesn't fly now that the entire Brazilian Supreme Court have unanimously backed the ban.

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Why do you have to intentionally misrepresent things (lie)?

Flávio Dino (Appointed by Lula) Cármen Lúcia (Appointed by Lula) Cristiano Zanin (Appointed by Lula) Luiz Fux (Appointed by Lula)

These are the only ones that voted.

Why would you assume that I intentionally and delibrately lied | misrepresented this?

What I did do was quote EuroNews who reported (as was linked on HN yesterday) that:

    Brazil's Supreme Court voted unanimously on Monday to uphold the decision by one of its justices to ban Elon Musk’s social media platform, X. [1]

You are correct that it was (as is common in many countries) a sub-panel of justices .. who all voted unanimously with no dissent opinions.

    The panel that voted in a virtual session was comprised of five of the full bench's 11 justices, including de Moraes, who last Friday ordered the platform blocked for refusing to name a local legal representative, as required by law [2]

Regardless, the point made stands - describing the initial ban as the action of a single rogue justice no longer holds water.

[1] https://www.euronews.com/next/2024/09/02/brazilian-court-to-...

[2] https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/2/ban-on-elon-musks-x-...

So who appointed them means I get to ignore them? So I could start doing abortions in Florida up to birth tomorrow, because I don't agree about the decision of the Trump SCOTUS?

Appointed - has influence, it is too simple to pretend that you don't understand it. And no need for allegory - it is just an attempt to deceive your opponent.

thats the system, like in USA, the elected presidente chose the supreme court judges, and the judge in question was appointed by a right wing president in 2017 when current one is a left wing from a diferent party. so, yes, influence, but in this situation twitter is acting as a rogue company and refuses to comply with the law, it can fight in the court it they do not agree, but as in most countries, is not up to the criminal to decide what is legal and what is not, for that most countries have a due legal process, as is the case for everything that is happening

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