Billionaire Elon Musk cannot just hold hostage the world with his far right ideological orientation just because he is super rich, the Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said on Monday.
Lula in an exclusive interview with media added that the world isn’t obliged to put up with billionaire Elon Musk’s “far-right anything goes” agenda because of his immense wealth.
Brazil government has also suspended social media site X belonging to Elon Musk.
“The Brazilian justice system may have given an important signal that the world is not obliged to put up with Musk’s extreme right-wing anything goes just because he is rich,” the president said.
Access to the platform was blocked after Brazil’s Supreme Court ordered the suspension of X nationwide, because Musk refused to name a legal representative in the country.
The court had previously issued orders to block multiple X accounts as part of the country’s sweeping investigation into the spread of misinformation online and hate speech aimed at undermining the country’s democracy.
Musk, a self-proclaimed “free speech absolutist” has repeatedly claimed the court’s actions amount to censorship.
