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On Monday, Brazil’s Supreme Court upheld a ruling banning the social media platform “X” across the country.
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A committee of the Supreme Court in Brazil has upheld the decision of one of its judges to ban the social media platform “X” owned by billionaire Elon Musk throughout the country, according to the court’s website.
The broader support among judges is a blow to Musk and his supporters, who sought to characterize Judge Alexandre de Moraes as an authoritarian censor of free political speech, according to the Associated Press.
There are five judges on the panel out of the court’s total of 11 judges, including De Moraes, who ordered last Friday that the platform be blocked for failure to hire a local legal representative in accordance with the law.
The X platform will remain banned until it complies with its orders and pays the fines owed to it, which exceeded $3 million last week, according to the judge’s decision.
On Saturday, Brazil’s Telecommunications Regulatory Authority said it had begun suspending access to social media platform “X” in the country, in accordance with an order issued by a judge in a month-long dispute with Elon Musk.
On Friday, a judge in Brazil’s Supreme Court issued an order to “immediately suspend” the X platform in the country after the deadline set by the court for the company to identify a legal representative in Brazil expired.
Musk said that Judge Alexandre de Moraes wants to cut down on unwarranted censorship, and the judge argues that social media sites need to be regulated to combat hate speech.
“They are shutting down the main source of truth in Brazil,” Musk added in a post on “X” on Friday.
The judge’s ruling could cause X to lose one of its biggest and most popular deals, at a time when Musk is struggling to generate advertising revenue on the platform.
2024-09-05 14:55:33