Allan G .Ferreira
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Allan G .Ferreira
@allangfer_
Capital & Innovation Strategist | Real Assets • Fintech • Applied AI • Blockchain | Narratives change. Structure remains. #codedwealth






BRAZIL IS ON THE BRINK I’m reporting to you from Brazil, where a dramatic series of events are underway. At 5:52 pm Eastern Time, today, April 6, 2024, X corporation, formerly known as Twitter, announced that a Brazilian court had forced it to “block certain popular accounts in Brazil.” Then, less than one hour later, the owner of X, @ElonMusk announced that X would defy the court’s order, and lift all restrictions. “As a result,” said Musk, “we will probably lose all revenue in Brazil and have to shut down our office there. But principles matter more than profit.” At any moment, Brazil’s Supreme Court could shut off all access to X/Twitter for the people of Brazil. It is not an exaggeration to say that Brazil is on the brink of dictatorship at the hands of a totalitarian Supreme Court Justice named Alexandre de Moraes. President Lula da Silva is participating in the push toward totalitarianism. Since taking office, Lula has massively increased government funding of the mainstream news media, most of which are encouraging increased censorship. What Lula and de Moraes are doing is an outrageous violation of Brazil’s constitution and the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights. At this moment, Brazil is not yet a dictatorship. It still has elections and the Brazilian people have other means at their disposal to confront authoritarianism. But the Federal Supreme Court and the Superior Electoral Court are directly interfere in those elections through censorship. Three days ago I published the Twitter Files for Brazil. They show that Moraes has violated the Brazilian Constitution. Moraes illegally demanded that Twitter reveal private information about Twitter users who used hashtags he considered inappropriate. He demanded access to Twitter's internal data, violating the platform's policy. He censored, on his own initiative and without any respect for due process, posts on Twitter by parliamentarians from the Brazilian Congress. And Moraes tried to turn Twitter's content moderation policies into a weapon against supporters of then-president Jair Bolsonaro. I say this as an independent and non-partisan journalist. I'm not a fan of either Bolsonaro or Trump. My political views are very moderate. But I know censorship when I see it. The Twitter Files also revealed that Google, Facebook, Uber, WhatsApp and Instagram betrayed the people of Brazil. If such evidence is proven, the executives of these companies behaved like cowards: they provided the Brazilian government with personal registration data and telephone numbers without a court order and, therefore, violating the law. When Twitter refused to provide Brazilian authorities with private user information, including direct messages, the government attempted to sue Twitter's top Brazilian lawyer. When I lived in Brazil in 1992, I was very left-wing. At the time, Lula and the PT's slogans were “Without fear of being happy”. In recent days, I have spoken to dozens of Brazilians, including professors, journalists and respected lawyers. Everyone tells me they are shocked by what is happening. They told me that they are afraid to speak their mind and that the Lula government is complicit in creating this climate of fear. Brazil belongs to the Brazilians. It is not my country. As such, there are limits to what I am capable of doing. But I can say things that many Brazilians do not feel safe saying: Alexandre de Moraes is a tyrant. And the only way to deal with tyrants is to confront them. It is up to Brazil’s senators to confront the tyrant. And it is up to the people of Brazil to demand that their senators do so.

Friends in Brazil, get a VPN.















Um dos meus primeiros clientes de consultoria - e que abriu muitas portas para mim - foi um judeu, dono de uma empresa de serviços remotos. O cara tinha um faturamento que eu nunca tinha visto na vida. E uma lição que ele me deu pautou minha vida empresarial: "Quando eu ganho, pelo menos algum outro judeu tem que ganhar também" No começo, eu achava muito errado isso. Parecia algo meio segregacionista, de fortalecer sua comunidade e não deixar ninguém mais entrar. Mas depois entendi que, para entrar em um círculo desses, era necessário muita confiança e reputação. E isso tem seu valor. Me aprofundando no assunto, comecei a perceber que judeus costumam ter uma mentalidade de "quando um ganha outras 5 pessoas precisam ganhar também". Dessa forma, os negócios vão surgindo e a economia continua movimentando. Em outras culturas (como no Brasil) é comum a mentalidade da pessoa querer ganhar sozinha. É o mindset da escassez na sua pura essência: para um ganhar outro tem que perder. Mas eu enxergo o mundo da abundância. Um mundo onde eu posso crescer mais se outras pessoas ao meu redor crescerem junto. Isso é trivial: certamente vou fazer mais negócios se meus clientes estiverem fazendo também. É por isso que hoje, sempre que posso, priorizo comprar dos meus clientes. Também sempre vou indicar meus clientes para outras pessoas e farei o máximo para eles crescerem. Quando eu falo que quem vem com o Scott se dá bem, não é exagero. É o compromisso que faço de que, se a pessoa depositou confiança em mim, ela vai sacar dividendos no futuro. Quer crescer mais rápido e com menor esforço? Esteja em um ambiente onde as outras pessoas vão te empurrar para frente, não onde vão puxar seu tapete.

Acabei de ficar sabendo que o nosso projeto Posterity Wallet (Protocolo de sucessão e herança DeFi) foi um dos premiados no Hackathon Global da Chainlink🤝 @f_fatique @blocknomad_ @matheusfpl @allangfer_eth, é sempre um privilégio.



