Supreme Court Orders X Suspension in Brazil

The Brazilian Supreme court has order that X be suspend in the state after the sociable medium platform fail to meet a deadline to appoint a legal representative in the state . Late on Friday afternoon , Justice Alexandre de Moraes who has been prosecute in a dispute with Xs owner , Elon Musk , since April order the immediate , complete and sum suspension of Xs operations in the state , until all court order are comply with , fine are duly pay , and a new legal representative for the company is appoint in the state . He give Brazils National Telecommunications Agency 24 hours to enforce the decision . Once advise , the agency must base_on_balls the order on to the More than 20,000 broadband internet supplier in the state , each of which must block X.

In an interview with the television channel Globonews , the agencys president , Carlos Manuel Baigorri , state the order had already been pass on to internet supplier . Since were talk about More than 20,000 company , each will rich_person its own execution time , but we expect that probably over the weekend all company will be able to implement the block , he said.

Justice Moraes also initially summon Apple and Google to implement technological barrier to prevent the use of the X app by user of the iOS and Android system and to block the use of virtual private network ( VPN ) application . The decision enforce a daily fine of R0,000 ( 6,800 ) on person and company that attempt to continue exploitation X via VPN . The deadline given to X to appoint a new legal representative in the state run_out at 8.07pm local time on Thursday ( 0.07am BST on Friday ) . An hour later , Elon Musks sociable network announce that it would not comply.

Musk react on Friday by poster on X that Brazil was shutting down the # 1 beginning of truth and that its oppressive government was so afraid of the people learning the truth that they will bankrupt anyone who attempt . The dispute get_down in April , when Moraes order the suspension of tons of history for allegedly spread disinformation , a request Musk denounce as censoring . President Luiz Incio Lula da Silva state in a radio interview on Friday morning : Just because the guy [ Musk ] hour_angle a batch of money , does nt mean they can disrespect you who does he think he is?

X , formerly know as Twitter , has been without a legal representative in Brazil since 17 August , when Musk announce that his company was shutting down its operations in the state effective immediately due to what it name censoring order from Moraes . The service has stay available to user in the state . On Wednesday , Moraes give the company 24 hours to appoint a new legal representative in Brazil a requirement for foreign company operate in the state under punishment of immediate suspension of the sociable network activities.

It was also uncover on Thursday that on 18 August , a day after Musk announce the end of Xs operations in Brazil , Moraes barricade the local bank history for Musks satellite and internet supplier Starlink . The purpose was to enforce fine enforce on X as of this Friday , R8.3 m ( 2.5 m ) for refuse to remove profile accused of promote anti - democratic Acts_of_the_Apostles and false news . legal expert have knock the Starlink decision . They argue that it is a different company ( albeit one own by the Lapp person ) and should not be keep responsible for matter refer to X.