The justice of the Supreme Federal Court of Brazil has ruled to stop the activities of the social media platform FridayX owned by the tech giant Muskof.
Judge Alexandre de Mores directed other telecommunications operators and app stores to cut access X Within five days platform would be actively blocked until the orders are carried out. He also placed a daily fine of 50,000 reais ($8,900) on users who have blocked theApp and used VPN facilities.
Why is the reason for X ban in Brazil?
“Social network P” is now legally forbidden to its users until all orders are executed and previous fines cleared”.
Judge Moraes found it appropriate to order a block of the X accounts accused of spreading false information which numbered a lot of the supporters of the former right-wing president Jair Bolsanaro during the investigation.
justice morais Musk had received such warnings before to the effect that X would be barred from the company given that it was unable to implement the directive on the of hiring local reps.
Since early August this year, the social media channel has been operated without a representative body in the country.
X has reported that Global Governance Affairs complied with the Supreme Court order and reported that Alexandre de Moraes threatened to place companies in Brazil under arrest for defying his order regarding legal representation for his censorship directives’ compliance. This was said to have been made on the basis of a classified directive which they filed to bring out his behavior.
Earlier in the morning hours of Thursday, the local accounts of Musk owned Starlink satellite network company were also restrained by the Supreme court. The controversies surrounding X has since then led to almost the shutdown of the platform in one of its key markets hence the suspension of the platform taken place on Friday.
That given day where X government affairs page of the global government dealt with X’s expectation of a judge Morais in regard ordering the time injunction without proper compliance with any legal direction, which according to them was targeting the judge political enemies.
Musk also came into criticism over the fact that he does not acknowledge the sovereignty and the times of Brazil’s law and legal institutions and that under the law and in theory, there are such institutions as sovereign countries with their laws, which is not something that Musk respects.
In response to Musk, it was his turn to Musk’s platform caged all the branches in Brazil and described it as judges ‘hatred’. Though the shutting down of these platforms, users in the country can still make use of the services of the platform.
Musk’s dispute with Judge DeMorais
Elon Musk and Judge De Morais have been embroiled in a war of words since the social media platform failed to act on a court order meant to ban specific hate-fostering accounts X.
Furthermore, X believes that Moraes verbally threatened to imprison one of the lawyers in Brazil for the company if the company did not act. Musk, on the other hand, has specified
The quarrel can be traced to April when several X’s accounts that were alleged to have provided misleading information were ordered to be deactivated xhibun l therm php.vimenti
“An essential component of democracy is free speech, a politically motivated tyranny in this case an unelected quasi-judge in Brazil is destroying it.” Consilad warned.
