X Braces For Ban In
It’s Elon Musk versus Brazil’s supreme court. And judge Alexandre de Moraes is out to make sure the billionaire falls in line or pays.
X said it expected the judge to ban the social media site in Brazil soon. This after the court-imposed deadline for the company to identify a legal representative in Brazil passed on Thursday evening.
Earlier in the day, the Supreme Court blocked the local bank accounts of billionaire Musk's Starlink satellite internet firm.
Musk lashed out at Moraes, labelling the judge an evil dictator. He also decried the ruling to block Starlink as illegal, and claimed the action punishes other shareholders as well as ordinary Brazilians.
Musk also announced that Starlink’s parent SpaceX will provide free internet service to Brazilian users until the matter is resolved.
The court's decision to sanction Starlink is a response to the lack of X's legal representatives in Brazil.
The decision to freeze Starlink's bank accounts stems from a separate dispute over unpaid fines that X was ordered to pay due to its failure to turn over some documents.
Earlier this month, X announced it would shut operations in Brazil due to what it called "censorship orders" from Moraes, while keeping its service available for Brazilian users.
It claimed Moraes secretly threatened one of the company's legal representatives in Brazil with arrest if it did not comply with legal orders to take down some content.
Brazil's President Lula da Silva pinned a post on the platform late on Thursday, listing six other social media accounts along with links to them.
Moraes has stressed that companies that do not respect local laws or the confidentiality of private information could have their activities suspended.
Earlier this year, the judge ordered X to block certain accounts implicated in investigations of so-called digital militias accused of spreading distortions and hate during earlier president Bolsonaro's term in office.
After Musk challenged that decision and said he would reactivate accounts on X that the judge had ordered blocked, Moraes opened an inquiry into Musk's businesses.
X representatives eventually reversed course and told the Supreme Court it would obey the rulings.
In April, Moraes asked X to explain why it had not fully complied. In response, X lawyers cited "operational faults" that had allowed users ordered blocked to stay active on the platform.
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