This is to inform that Brazilian Supreme Court has warned X formerly called Twitter, that the way forward is to halt its services in the country unless Elon Musk designates a legal representative.
The court made this decision after X failed to execute the repeated orders given with regard to attacking hate speech and misleading propaganda. The company had ignored six stern warnings about such flagrant noncompliance with the court orders. The company’s failure to name a legal agent in Brazil has delayed the enforcement of judicial decisions.
He and Elon Musk have also been embroiled in a war of words since X last year complied with a court’s directive to cut off accounts it believes were spreading “fake news” and hate speech. X asserts that Moraes used the threat of imprisonment of Zaulia’s lawyer in Brazil as a gun to the head of the company together with the demand for submission.
News peak this time is that even this time Musk has returned back with full fury with still one of the Justices Alexandre de Moraes in X platform termed as an ‘abominable criminal of the worst kind’ disguising as a judge Today I will tell you why X is face with a potential risk of ban in Brazil.
Earlier on Thursday, the Supreme Court has placed the local bank account of Musk’s Starlink satellite internet firm under freezing order while the ongoing tussle over X has led the platform to the verge of closure in one of its known market.
In contradiction, Elon Musk’s platform has shut down all its operations in Brazil citing “censorship” in the hands of the judge. These ‘censorship’ restrictions have still not on the other hand stopped the availability of the platform to users within the country.
In conformity with Brazil’s supervisory body for the internet, it is necessary for every social media firm to have a local representative in the country.
The judge further said that companies disobeying any law in Brazil will be accordingly liable to immediate cessation of some of their activities for a certain period.
For Justice Moraes to effect a total ban of X operations in Brazil, he would have to pronounce an order to the telecom providers halting the X’s traffic. Venezuelan users, however, would still be able to elude this ban which was why users soon after the threat of suspension of Moraes preferred abstaining from watching posts urging Brazilians to flood social media.
X is very popular in Brazil and is an important avenue of communication, especially for politicians who wish to air their opinions and attack their opponents.
In the face of such a high-profile clash, Brazilians sought X to mock and ridicule the situation, with thousands posting innovative memes around the brash judge and the infamous tycoon.
Arguments by some X users who condemned the ruling curbed by Moraes’s signature said that he was suppressing free speech, while others defended Moraes, claiming that Elon Musk should be in conformity with the laws of Brazil.
