The New Digital World Order?

Brazil Vs Musk: A Glimpse of the Future

The lines between corporations and countries are getting blurrier by the day.

Nowhere is this more apparent than in the battle between Brazil, Elon Musk and his various vanity projects.

Brazil’s Supreme Court, in its infinite wisdom (and admittedly, sovereign right) ordered the banning of certain accounts on X (formerly Twitter). Why? Because these accounts were spreading misinformation and Nazi ideologies faster than a wildfire in the Amazon.

In most countries, this would be the end of the story.

The Court makes a decision, people grumble, life goes on.

But not when Elon Musk is involved.

The petulant space cowboy decided that this was the hill he was going to die on. And by “die,” I mean “throw a tantrum of epic proportions.” Musk, in a move that can only be described as a middle finger to the Brazilian justice system, decided that he was going to ignore the Brazilian authorities and refused to ban the accounts in question.

In response to Musk’s defiance, the Brazilian Supreme Court escalated the situation by ordering a questionable nationwide ban on X itself, and issuing a draconian crackdown on VPNs.