{"id":238368,"date":"2020-03-30T11:58:57","date_gmt":"2020-03-30T15:58:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/?p=238368"},"modified":"2021-09-26T18:59:40","modified_gmt":"2021-09-26T22:59:40","slug":"twitter-removes-posts-by-brazils-bolsonaro-in-crackdown-on-information-that-may-increase-risk-of-covid-19-spread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/mn\/twitter-removes-posts-by-brazils-bolsonaro-in-crackdown-on-information-that-may-increase-risk-of-covid-19-spread\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter REMOVES posts by Brazil\u2019s Bolsonaro in crackdown on information that \u2018may increase risk\u2019 of Covid-19 spread"},"content":{"rendered":"
RAEL\u2019S COMMENT: <\/span><\/strong><\/h5>\n
The funny censorship of \u201csocial\u201d media becoming in fact a factor of conservatism and politically correct. But thankfully, like any censorship, they are being nullified by people using other media. As long as we keep a diversity of social media censorship will be useless. We just need to fight so there will never be only one controlled by governments.<\/span><\/strong><\/h5>\n

 <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

In an unprecedented move, Twitter has yanked two posts by Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, in which he took aim at coronavirus lockdowns as part of his controversial campaign to avoid a shutdown of the economy.<\/div>\n
\n

Bolsonaro has become the first ever head of state to have his tweets censored by the platform under recently-updated guidelines, requiring users to remove content that defies\u00a0\u201cglobal or local health authorities recommendations\u201d<\/em>\u00a0aimed at halting the spread of the deadly disease that has already taken hold in the Latin American country.<\/p>\n

The Brazilian leader, who has been adamant that economic damage from lockdowns is a price too high to pay for lowering health risks, made a trip to a street market on Sunday, mingling with crowds and chatting with street vendors.<\/p>\n

The videos, posted by Bolsonaro in the wake of the visit, apparently ran afoul of the Twitter guidelines. In one of them, Bolsonaro assures a street seller that he was\u00a0\u201cnot going to die\u201d\u00a0due to the measures to combat the pandemic.<\/p>\n

“What I have been hearing from people is that they want to work,\u201d\u00a0the president, dubbed dubbed the \u201cTrump of the Tropics,\u201d reportedly said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/484441-bolsonaro-coronavirus-twitter-ban\/?fbclid=IwAR2ulUdSmKsPmwhY2mHwV3OGO5eSlu25LplsXjr4VC4Uth6tnqH7qET2CDs<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

RAEL\u2019S COMMENT: The funny censorship of \u201csocial\u201d media becoming in fact a factor of conservatism and politically correct. But thankfully, like any censorship, they are being nullified by people using other media. As long as we keep a diversity of social media censorship will be useless. We just need to fight so there will never […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":337454,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/mn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/mn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/mn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/mn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/mn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/mn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238368\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/mn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/mn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/mn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/mn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}