Following a protracted legal dispute over issues related to content moderation, a high-ranking court in Brazil mandated a nationwide halt of the X platform on Friday, as reported by Bloomberg. The conflict involves the social media entity owned by Elon Musk.
The ruling stated that users circumventing the suspension via VPN would face penalties, with fines reaching up to 50,000 reais — or about $8,900 — daily. However, details on the enforcement of this rule remain unspecified.
This month saw X shutter its Brazilian operations in defiance of judicial directives to deactivate accounts accused of disseminating false information. The company articulated that Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes had menaced their local legal representative with incarceration for not adhering to his demands for censorship. Moraes had previously cautioned that failure to appoint a legal representative within the nation could lead to a ban on X’s services in Brazil.
“We anticipate that Judge Alexandre de Moraes will soon issue an order to shut down X in Brazil, marred by our refusal to bow to his unjust censorship of political rivals,” proclaimed the global affairs unit of X in a tweet on Friday morning.
X has announced its intention to disclose the specific requests made by the Brazilian supreme court shortly, while simultaneously declaring its resolve not to abide by these directives.
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