{"id":65626,"date":"2023-08-08T04:55:59","date_gmt":"2023-08-08T09:55:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=65626"},"modified":"2023-08-08T04:55:59","modified_gmt":"2023-08-08T09:55:59","slug":"brazil-censorship-regime-popular-podcaster-monark-criminally-investigated-and-fined-75000-for-online-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=65626","title":{"rendered":"Brazil Censorship Regime: Popular Podcaster Monark Criminally Investigated and Fined $75,000 For Online Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Brazil Censorship Regime: Popular Podcaster Monark Criminally Investigated and Fined $75,000 For Online Speech<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Troubling news from Brazil.<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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One of Brazil\u2019s most popular podcasters, Monark (real name Bruno Monteiro Aiub), is under criminal investigation and has received a fine equivalent to $75,000 for his online conduct.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Critics of the authority\u2019s behavior here \u2013 like Brazil-based investigative journalist Glenn Greenwald \u2013 see this as a way to completely science the online personality known as the country\u2019s version of Joe Rogan.<\/p>\n

And do this without any due process, as well.<\/p>\n

Reports in the Brazilian\u00a0press<\/a>\u00a0say that the decision to fine Monark, whom they refer to as a digital influencer, came from\u00a0Federal Supreme Court\u2019s Minister Alexandre de Moraes<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Moraes is no stranger to taking an active part in controversial policies and decisions slammed for suppressing free speech on the internet.<\/p>\n

In fact, he now has a fairly long history of involvement in this, dating back to the campaign to oust Brazil\u2019s previous president.<\/p>\n

In line with this reputation, Moraes\u2019 decision was explained as the podcaster\u2019s failure to comply with a court order, and in addition to the fine, includes blocking his bank account, suspending any new social media accounts, and demonetizing his channels.<\/p>\n

In other words, a pretty thorough deplatforming and canceling, and Monark said he also lost his\u00a0Rumble contract<\/a>\u00a0over the incident. And the reason: Moraes says he\u2019s fighting \u201cdisinformation\u201d allegedly spread by Monark, as well as his tactic of trying to get his voice heard by creating a new account, once an old one gets banned.<\/p>\n

Monark\u2019s defenders, including his lawyer, say that the \u201ccrime\u201d he committed is that of having an opinion that is not liked by the government, and that accusations of \u201cinstigation of anti-democratic acts\u201d are not true.<\/p>\n

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Brazil Censorship Regime: Popular Podcaster Monark Criminally Investigated and Fined $75,000 For Online Speech Troubling news from Brazil. One of Brazil\u2019s most popular podcasters, Monark (real name Bruno Monteiro Aiub), is under criminal investigation and has received a fine equivalent to $75,000 for his online conduct. Critics of the authority\u2019s behavior here \u2013 like Brazil-based […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[90,33901,120,7973,33879,379,33900,26071,33878],"class_list":["post-65626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-brazil","tag-cancellation","tag-censorship","tag-deplatforming","tag-didi-rankovic","tag-government","tag-monark","tag-narrative-management","tag-reclaim-the-net"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65626"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65627,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65626\/revisions\/65627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}