The dispute between the tech giant and the Brazilian justice system has been settled with a radical decision: the suspension of X in the country. “Minister Alexandro de Moraes has just decided to suspend X throughout the national territory,” Brazilian television reported.
Judge De Moraes thus responded to the negative by Elon Musk collaborate with justice. For his part, Brazilian President Lula da Silva supported the measure: “It is not because he has a lot of money that he can break the law. Who does he think he is?
The order was made effective after De Moraes requested the suspension of multiple accounts. In these, the content of the speeches, in his own words: “Nazis, racists, fascists and hate speech”, was massively disseminated. Likewise, the magistrate feared that these profiles “undermine the democratic process” in the fall municipal elections, as happened during last year’s coup attempt.
Following the refusal of X’s majority owner, Elon Musk, to close these accounts, the judge ordered arrest of the legal representative of in Brazil. In response, the North American tycoon closed its offices in the country of Rio.
De Moraes asked Musk to appoint a new legal representative. However, Musk refused. For him, De Moraes is “a tyrant This crushes freedom of expression.” Indeed, he published a tweet in which he resembles the magistrate’s appearance to that of Voldemort, the villain from Harry Potter, accompanied by the text: “The resemblance is astonishing. “Voldemort’s Alexander.”
From now on, it will be the responsibility of the country’s Internet service providers, make it easier to lock the app. Carlos Baigorri, president of the National Telecommunications Agency, stressed that “each company, depending on its architecture, has a f“a different way of doing this blockade.”
A lock that can be mock if user uses VPN to access the Internet from another country without leaving Brazil. If they are discovered, the the fine will be 50,000 reais (8,000 euros).
