Leonardo Sakamoto Federal Police says Bolsonaro used his nets to incite death 28/12/2022 16h48

As Jair Bolsonaro prepares to replace Lula’s inauguration with Mickey and Goofy in Orlando, he finds time to witness another consequence of his recklessness. The Federal Police concluded that he was attacking public peace by lying that the vaccine against Covid-19 could cause AIDS. And he said that he committed a crime, arguing that the use of masks caused pneumonia.

It is not surprising that Bolsonaro tells lies that could kill, rather that is what we expect from him. Surprisingly, he hasn’t lost his accounts on social networks and messaging apps.

He has been using Facebook, Twitter, Instagram since the beginning of the epidemic., YouTube, WhatsApp, Telegram, among other platforms, are helping to build the mountain of more than 693 thousand dead by disseminating information that puts Brazilians at risk to sabotage the fight against covid-19. It promoted fear of vaccines, attacked mask use and social isolation, and promoted ineffective drugs against the disease.

After the AIDS lie, which still has the defect of reinforcing the idiotic prejudice against people with HIV, saw YouTube remove the live broadcast that said such heresy and hooked it up for a week. She also saw that Facebook removed the material. Twitter flagged the content as fake. Therefore actions are punctual. There was really nothing stopping Jair from continuing to use the nets to attack public health, with the help of his son Carlos.

And democracy. Because every party that moved knew that the President’s blows to the STF, TSE and the electronic voting system would inevitably convince some of the people of an election fraud that did not happen. The camps of the putschists, pregnant with terrorists like the Bolsonarist bomber, are the final fruit of this.

Bolsonaro feels that because he is in a democracy, he has the right to attack and limit other people’s freedoms, to risk lives and mortally injure democracy itself, and that he will not be appropriately held accountable. He demands that we be tolerant of his intolerance.

In a new wave of smoke to distract the attention of the society from inflation, hunger, chaos in the economic field, deaths in the epidemic, the showman in the auditorium occupying the Palácio do Planalto told his followers about AIDS and mask lies on October 21, 2021, that LSD (Live Weekly of Misinformation) in another distribution.

The President pushed the Brazilians to the pier and continued to access their nets. In the United States, Donald Trump lost his social media accounts when he set a crowd on fire to attack Congress after losing the election. Here he incites and continues with the putschists, who set fire to buses in Brasília and trucks in Itaúba (MT) and shot police officers in Novo Progresso (PA).

Bolsonaristas’ accounts have even been removed, essentially by court order, like Allan dos Santos, a fugitive in the US. The consequences aren’t usually that great, as it’s the President who frequently threatens platforms with bills that prevent content from being removed.

Banning Bolsonaro from the networks is not a pre-censorship, it will be a punishment for perverting the right to freedom of expression, for committing crimes against humanity by turning their profiles into weapons, for attacking the lives of millions.

By law, if we use our freedom against the dignity of others, we are responsible for the effect of disclosing our statements and will be subject to penalties.

And the bigger the megaphone, the weight of the message and its violent effects, the greater the responsibility of the sender of the information. A president who claims that vaccines cause AIDS or kill young people cannot be punished like an uncle zap. But ironically, it was easier for the platforms to punish the zap’s uncle than the president.

“This was not just an opinion,” the PF report says, “but one that was disseminated by a Head of State based on mismanagement of existing posts on social networks. audiencedeliberately, potentially alarming”.

This needs to be measured by Justice and platforms, as timid responses are actually an invitation for crimes to continue.

Bolsonaro committed serial crimes that instrumentalized networks to aid death. Now the invoice should arrive late.