“We don’t know who the leader is, it’s like this anonymous Brazilian,” Dorsey said.

That anonymous Brazilian is Giovanni Torres Parra, a developer who has also built at least two webpages devoted to disseminating the work of the far-right conspiracy theorist Olavo de Carvalho. Before he died in 2022 after contracting COVID-19, de Carvalho — known as Olavo — praised Brazil’s military dictatorship, claimed that Pepsi-Cola was flavored with stem cells of aborted fetuses, preached that tolerance for homosexuality was “incompatible” with democracy, and had an office in Virginia decorated with portraits of Confederate generals.

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          The main difference is that right-wing libertarians perceive censorship as a technological problem while leftists understand it as a social problem. Fediverse software is generally agnostic about censorship. It is a matter of policy left to instance operators. Right-wing libertarians on the other hand will produce the same corporate social structures over and over again and think an algorithm will fix the problem.