Brazil’s Supreme Federal Court has broadened restrictions on former president Jair Bolsonaro, now barring the distribution of his interviews across social media platforms.
The directive, issued Monday by Justice Alexandre de Moraes, now becoming a household name in the censorship hall of fame, prohibits the sharing of any video, audio, or transcript in which Bolsonaro is featured, regardless of who conducts or posts the interview.
Moraes argued that such content could be used to bypass the current social media ban imposed on the former president and warned that any attempt to do so could result in Bolsonaro’s immediate imprisonment.
“The precautionary measure prohibiting the use of social networks, directly or through third parties, imposed on Jair Messias Bolsonaro obviously includes the transmissions, retransmissions or broadcasting of audios, videos or transcripts of interviews on any of the third-party social media platforms, and the investigated cannot use these means to circumvent the measure, under penalty of immediate revocation and decree of imprisonment,” Moraes wrote.
