I find it completely bizarre how people can put different aspects of life into hermetically sealed silos. Photography doesn't live in a vacuum. In many political regimes, past, present and, it would seem, future, photography as we practise is either completely forbidden or considered by The Authorities to be extremely suspicious behaviour. If you want to bury your head in the sand, or declare the Our Great Leader would never allow that, well up to you, but that kind of behaviour can also be considered an abdication of responsibility to society.
Personally I am sick to the back tweet of Trump/Brexit/Trump/Brexit/Trump etc etc, and I'm extremely concerned about Russia and even more so about China, in the former case in particular with regards to environmental issues (although the USA is doing a good job of catching up there). I don't participate much in online political discussions due to the completely entrenched Spy vs. Spy attitudes, which have always been present but are now accelerating exponentially due to social median collapsing standards of education, civility and public discourse.
But the fact that Lula has decided to explicitly allow political discourse within a clearly ring-fenced forum area to me can only be a positive move. The world is going to hell in a hand basket, on multiple fronts. Denying discourse in any form will only accelerate that.