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You’re mixing different unrelated issues and making this about Musk, which I don’t think is on topic. I’ll just say that Brazil has local laws that make secret censorship orders unconstitutional. Twitter complies with government orders to censor if it is legal, for example in Australia. But it isn’t legal in Brazil. Elsewhere they’ve even fought such orders - for example shortly after Musk acquired Twitter they had a legal battle with the government of India, which they lost and ended up complying, in part because laws were passed that made those censorship orders legal. No law has been passed in Brazil to give any court the power that Moraes assumed.

Twitter doesn't get to decide what is legal or what isn't in Brazil. If they feel something is illegal, Brazil has a judicial system they can use, but until then they are expected to comply with court orders like in any other country in the world. Instead Musk announced they will not comply, pulled the representatives of Twitter in Brazil and now has his service banned. So it very much is about Musk because it was his decision to defy the court on the basis of protecting free speech, although again he routinely bans users from Twitter that mock him.
Lets not pretend Musk understands Brazilian law. He looked for a fight and lost again, so he left the country.

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