[matheusmoreira]

Idiots? What do you know of what's happening here that you feel you can dismiss these people as idiots?

We have supreme court judges who were openly partial towards the winning candidate during the election. One of these guys is proud of his own partiality and the fact he chose side. They implemented censorship with the "fake news" excuse, something not seen here since the military dictatorship. The same partial judges preside over the electoral justice court and they gave themselves investigatory and executive powers in order to unilaterally censor anyone they want without even a hint of due process. The election is over and they've yet to relinquish the powers that they used to disproportionally censor the losing candidate's supporters. Bolsonaro was elected in 2018 due to social media, they essentially took away his advantage.

There were plenty of reasonable questions raised by the election results. Instead of explanations and reasoned refutations, these judges offered only summary censorship and arrogance. They openly say the voting machines are "unquestionable" and that anyone doing so will be "held accountable" because apparently it's a crime to question the results of the election. It's worldwide consensus that voting machines are a bad idea yet these judges think they're perfect and will censor and fine you if you say otherwise. Our military's cyberwarfare force released a report that showed the voting machine software was vulnerable to a supply chain attack of the same sort that compromised people on this site many times over the last few years. In response, everyone took it as evidence that there was no fraud and the judges started trying to get our defense minister exonerated in clear retaliation.

People protesting this aren't "idiots", they are tired of this corruption, this dishonesty. I don't blame them, this election left me deeply disgusted and I no longer have any faith in our so called institutions. Protests are a constitutional right but these judges are already fining people and freezing accounts of corporations. People are complaining that the protesters want a coup, well these judges essentially launched their own coup and it looks like nobody noticed.

[pedrobelo]

lol.

I'm not sure where to begin, but yes - it does take a special kind of idiot to believe that appointed judges can launch a coup to protect the elected president.

and why on earth is this on Hacker News? I guess even Jovem Pan is beginning to realize this whole movement is a clown show.

[matheusmoreira]

> it does take a special kind of idiot to believe that appointed judges can launch a coup to protect the elected president

What else do you call the massive censorship campaign that's been going on before, during and after the elections? They censored some pro-Bolsonaro videos without even looking at the content, this "fake news" stuff is pure bullshit. They clearly conspired to elect Lula and abused their powers to help him.

Actually I'll go even further. We are living under a judicial dictatorship right now. Censorship equals dictatorship, it's that simple. These judges are traitors who couldn't care less about the constitution.

> and why on earth is this on Hacker News?

Why wouldn't it be? Lots of people here are brazilians and have brazilian employees. What happens here matters. Lula has already signaled that he plans to regulate the software developer profession and that will have major implications for remote work.

> I guess even Jovem Pan is beginning to realize this whole movement is a clown show.

This "clown show" just turned into an official matter. Bolsonaro's party just submitted a formal request to dismiss the votes of the older, less thoroughly audited voting machines that mysteriously have no serial number. They can't censor it anymore.