Brazil banned access to X (formerly Twitter) for refusing to comply with a ruling by the country's Supreme Court.
Brazil's Supreme Court judge Alexandre de Moraes has ordered the country's internet service providers to block social media platform X.
The New York Times reports that the order comes after X's owner, Elon Musk, refused to appoint a legal representative in the country and comply with Moraes' order to close X accounts he deemed harmful to the democratic process.
The court order was published online by Brazilian news website Poder 360.
Brazilian telecommunications agency Anatel confirmed that received the court order and ISPs in the country have just 24 hours to comply with it.
Apple and Google have five days to remove App X from their stores, while Brazilians face hefty fines for overturning the ban.
Justice Moraes' order doesn't just block the country's access to X. It also makes it a crime to use the app even over a virtual private network (VPN). Anyone caught accessing X with a VPN could face a daily fine of 50.000 Brazilian Real (about €8.900).
Also, Judge Moraes on Thursday froze the Brazilian bank accounts of SpaceX's internet service provider Starlink in order to further pressure Musk to comply with the court order.
SpaceX, like X, is a private company majority owned by Musk, and X has $3 million in unpaid fines related to its case in the country.
Starlink expressed its disapproval and vowed to fight the decision. She even threatened to provide her services for free to clients in order to overturn the justice's decisions.
The legal battle between Justice Moraes and Musk has been raging for months. The judge of the Supreme Court is also the Supreme Electoral Court of Brazil. It monitors and issues orders to candidates to avoid spreading false information through the internet and social media channels.
Musk called Moraes' instructions to remove or freeze similar misinformation accounts from X as "censorship orders."
Brazilian users seem to be turning to Bluesky since they can't use X. Currently there is no evidence of an increase in registrations or movements on Mastodon (another decentralized platform) and Meta's Threads.
Friday's ala dalla milk!
"WOK Agenda" ... it may not stick anywhere in the case of Brazil, but you had to "put" the waxed slogan somewhere.
The president in Brazil is the socialist Lula who looks at your great sympathy for Putin. Erdoğan is a fellow Cappadocian whom you admire and who turns social media on and off. And he "wok"?
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hey, where did you find her so clever that you put the ointments in there too?? If you didn't understand, here and about 15 years ago, everything starts from WOK Agenda. !
But sorry, I won't be able to give you lessons, think!!
However, the People do not react, and as long as they do not react, they will make the WOK Agenda's orders worse and worse.
When will the world Rise up to overthrow the absurd Plans of the Oligarchs ?? While we are watching Netflix and Systemic Media, the world is DISTURBING and how much, are we going to do something??? Or would we just watch the train coming towards us???
Reading about the "manly world" and the "DECEPTION" he should have been more afraid of the sting of fanaticism than that of medicine.
By the way...you're welcome!
I wanted to write Western, and PLANDIMIA, but from acquired speed they "left" like this.
I imagine you must be one of those who called the unvaccinated people "CAMPAZIDES" because they wanted to have the choice of what to do and what not to do with their bodies.... "DEMOCRAT" and you look like STALIN.
I also see a Hara Ahtarama
The male world is "Buzzing" with democracy...
Canada (blocked the accounts of those who helped the Dalykerides), Australia (Had among them those who spoke against PLANDIMIA), Germany (the security forces killed the wooden doctor who opposed the deadly Bolia), France (Arrested the founder of Telegram). and much more...