Brazil kicked out Elon Musk’s X.
Friday, Brazil’s highest court I ordered it There have been suggestions that Musk’s social media company X (formerly Twitter) should be banned in the country.
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The move comes after Musk’s feud with Brazilian Supreme Court Judge Alexandre de Moraes, who previously ordered X to remove content that spread fake news and misinformation. Musk and the company responded to the judge’s request by saying,Censorship order” .
Musk himself recently attacked X’s judge, calling Moraes “evil dictator” .
Earlier this month X closed The company’s operations in Brazil were disrupted after a judge threatened to arrest X’s CEO, Rachel Nova Conceicao, if the company did not comply with an order to remove content.
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While the company X withdrew from Brazil, its platform was still available and accessible to users in Brazil. On Wednesday, Brazil’s Supreme Court ordered X to appoint a legal representative in Brazil within 24 hours. Failure to do so would result in X share A statement was released Thursday night predicting the ban would be imposed.
“Soon, we expect Judge Alexandre de Morais to order the closure of X in Brazil, because we will not comply with his illegal order to censor his political opponents,” the statement reads.
Losing its user base in Brazil would likely be a huge blow to X. The platform is popular in countries with Brazilian users. accounting X has tens of millions of monthly active users.
as The New York Times reportMany of the accounts that Judge Moraes suspended were supporters of Brazil’s former right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro. Some of the accounts ordered to be deleted questioned the results of Brazil’s 2022 election, which Bolsonaro lost.
In Brazil, technology companies must have a legal representative in the country to operate in the country. The country previously banned platforms such as: telegram In 2022, it was charged with failing to comply with local laws. (Telegram has since resumed operations in Brazil.)
On Thursday, Starlink, a subsidiary of SpaceX, one of Elon Musk’s other companies, launched share Brazil’s Supreme Court has reportedly frozen the company’s finances. A statement from Starlink claims it did so after a judge ruled that Starlink was liable for Musk’s fines for X.
