> Any and all censorship of political and artistic nature is prohibited
Before the 2022 election, these judges went out of their way to censor pretty much everything Bolsonaro and his supporters said. They just decided everything was "fake news" and ordered it all taken down. Unconstitutional political censorship.
I watched them censor a documentary that had not even been released. A priori censorship, something not seen in these lands since the military dictatorship of the 20th century.
Making a mockery out of our nation's highest laws wasn't enough for them, they went on to brag about it in public. "We defeated Bolsonarism", proclaimed one of the supposedly impartial judges. "Lula is president today due to the decisions of the supreme court", claims another judge. "I wouldn't have won the elections were it not for... [cut off]", muttered absent mindedly into a hot mike by none other than current president Lula himself the day he took office.
These are not the only abuses perpetrated by the court. As far as I know, it started in 2019 when a magazine ran a damning article on one of them. In response to that, they started a "fake news" inquisition that lasts to this day. They're basically the victims, investigators, prosecutors, judges and executioners of wildcard crimes against thenselves covering the entire brazilian territory. Details here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39966382
Suffice it to say that the magazine was censored, proper due process was not observed, conflicts of interest were not resolved, and so on and so forth. But the "fake news" inquisition kept going. It was under its umbrella that they engaged in their censorship efforts against Bolsonaro and his supporters. I witnessed journalists and even youtubers seek political asylum in the US.
Things kept escalating further and further until they blocked Twitter nationwide and essentially stole millions of dollars out of the US economy via fines for failures to comply with illegal censorship orders. Then they declared social media companies liable for user content which in effect gets them to preemptively censor content, thereby privatizing their censorship. Trump is finally striking back against them with much awaited sanctions.