ccording to the court's website, a Brazilian Supreme Court has supported the ruling of one of its magistrates to obstruct Elon Musk's social media platform, X throughout the country.
All the magistrates voted collectively to adopt the measure so the social media platform X ban would continue.
X ban was instituted in the first hours of Saturday, as Elon Musk's social media X declined to nominate a new attorney in Brazil before a court-required time limit.
This represents the most recent progress in the conflict between Alexandre de Moraes, the Supreme Court Justice, and the social media platform X owner Elon Musk. The dispute started back in April when the judge required the interruption of dozens of accounts for supposedly spreading false information.
Magistrate Moraes had asked for the five-member board to adjudicate on the Elon Musk X ban, and this provoked split opinions in Brazil.
One of the magistrates, Flavio Dino, declared that “freedom of expression is closely linked to a duty of responsibility. The first can’t exist without the second, and vice-versa.”
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As a reaction to the the X ban, Elon Musk stated: “Free speech is the bedrock of democracy and an unelected pseudo-judge in Brazil is destroying it for political purposes.”
In his decision, Justice Moraes offered companies, including Google and Apple, five days to eliminate X from their app stores and interdict its usage on iOS and Android devices.
He also added that people or businesses that are discovered to still access X utilizing virtual private networks (VPNs) could be penalized R$50.000 ($8.910).
Elon Musk's social media platform X shut down its office in Brazil last month, declaring that its delegate had been intimidated by arrest if she did not conform to instructions it detailed as “censorship”, which it said was banned by the Brazilian law.
Magistrate Moraes has ruled that X accounts which were indicted of spreading disinformation must be closed while the investigation is ongoing.
X ban in Brazil is even more significant, as Brazil is believed to be one of the biggest markets for Elon Musk's social media platform. Since the X ban, many Brazilian users have been shifting to the microblogging platform called Bluesky as a replacement.
As a result, Bluesky declared on Saturday that it had recorded half a million new users in Brazil only over the two prior days alone.
Jay Graber, Bluesky CEO, declared her enjoyment of the inundation of new users, uploading a post in Portuguese and English: “Good job Brazil, you made the right choice.”
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Alice Brasoveanu
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September 3, 2024 4:06 PM
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