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The global crackdown on free speech continues unabated and if you think it’s relegated to countries like China, Cuba and North Korea, think again. A Brazilian Supreme Court panel on Monday upheld a decision to suspend Elon Musk’s social media platform X in the country. Last Friday, Justice Alexandre de Moraes ordered the platform blocked. Since the decision, Musk and his supporters have tried to paint de Moraes as a renegade and an authoritarian censor of political speech. But Brazil is no outlier. The European Union is also cracking down on free speech with its Online Service Act and we have our own free-speech haters here in the United States.