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by thiagoharry 805 days ago
Because the comment was like saying "no person should be jailed because the constitution says that everyone is free"! No rights is absolute, if you commit crimes or if one right conflicts with another, compromises will be made. And Brazilian laws allows to content to be removed online for reasons of investigation, hate speech or unbased defamation.
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The constitution doesn’t say “everyone is free” though. But it does say censorship is forbidden, without qualifiers.
Fortunately, there is no censorship happening. Everyone can post anything. But if it is illegal content, there will be consequences and the content could be removed.
Please cite one example of illegal content and the law that makes it illegal.
Monark's channel were deleted because it spread disinformation about brazilian ellections, and this is forbidden by electoral laws. Also for defending things like the creation of a nazi party, which is also forbidden by brazilian laws.
In other words, censorship of wrongthink. A real supreme court would have rejected those laws as unconstitutional.
There is nothing illegal or unconstitutional, because according with Brazilian laws, making apology to Nazism is illegal. Law 7.716/89, article 20. Nobody will previously censor you or check if you are commiting these crimes. But if you commit, there will be consequences.