Commentary
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the far-left candidate in Brazil’s presidential elections this year, has resumed his attack on freedom of expression by demanding the “social control of the media.”
“Social control of the media” can be defined as a “euphemism to subordinate the free flow of information to the undercover interference from government.”
Commonly known as Lula, the former president vowed that if elected in the next presidential elections, his government would definitely implement this state-sponsored censorship of social media.
“We will have to regulate social networks, regulate the internet, set a parameter,” said Lula in a Nov. 19, 2021, interview in Brussels, Belgium….