2024-08-17 21:07:40
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“X has no choice but to close our local operations in Brazil,” Elon Musk wrote. “Job X is available to Brazilians,” said another company press release.
The union said it was forced to make this decision to “protect the safety” of its staff on site. It confirmed that the judge Alexandre de Moraes had “threatened our legal representative in Brazil with arrest” in the event that he did not comply with what the social network called “censorship” decisions aimed at blocking a content.
“The decision to close the X offices in Brazil was difficult,” said Elon Musk. “But if we had accepted the secret of Alexandre de Moraes (illegal) censorship and requests to release private information, we would not have been able to explain our actions without shame. »
“It’s a shame of justice”
Alexandre de Moraes “is ashamed of justice” and “must go”, he added about the man who has been described in the past as a “rock”.
In the name of fighting against information, in recent years the judge has ordered the banning of the accounts of figures involved in Brazil’s ultra-conservative movements.
And this is mainly from the efforts by supporters of Jair Bolsonaro, lover of Elon Musk, to oppose the electronic voting system during the presidential election won by Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
In April, X admitted that users whose accounts had been blocked had managed to circumvent the restrictions. “With many unheard appeals to the Supreme Court, the Brazilian public is not informed of these judgments, and the fact that our Brazilian staff has no responsibility or control over the content blocked on our platform,” Judge Moraes “choose to threaten our staff in Brazil rather than respect the law and its regulations,” the social network said on Saturday.
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