Alexandre de Moraes is an evil dictator cosplaying as a judge. https://t.co/ZIV8KbDCmk
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 30, 2024
They’re shutting down the #1 source of truth in Brazil https://t.co/RasqcQ3ySM
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 30, 2024
The oppressive regime in Brazil is so afraid of the people learning the truth that they will bankrupt anyone who tries https://t.co/VgYPRJMXJv
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 30, 2024
Everyone should block Twitter.
This guy Musk will come into your country and say he has a “free platform” and then he will censor all of your own people and promote CIA accounts.
You can’t have a free country when Musk is free to roam the internet. He will get everyone on his platform, then he will censor anyone defending the country and promote the CIA.
The Brazilian supreme court has ordered that X be suspended in the country after the social media platform failed to meet a deadline to appoint a legal representative in the country.
Late on Friday afternoon, Justice Alexandre de Moraes – who has been engaged in a dispute with X’s owner, Elon Musk, since April – ordered the “immediate, complete and total suspension of X’s operations” in the country, “until all court orders … are complied with, fines are duly paid, and a new legal representative for the company is appointed in the country”.
He gave Brazil’s National Telecommunications Agency 24 hours to enforce the decision. Once notified, the agency must pass the order on to the more than 20,000 broadband internet providers in the country, each of which must block X.
That’s a lot of ISPs!
If Brazilian ISPs were papercuts, they would be enough to kill a grown man!
In an interview with the TV channel Globonews, the agency’s president, Carlos Manuel Baigorri, said the order had already been passed on to internet providers.
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Justice Moraes also summoned Apple and Google to “implement technological barriers to prevent the use of the X app by users of the iOS and Android systems” and to block the use of VPN applications.
The decision imposes a daily fine of R$50,000 (£6,800) on individuals and companies that attempt to continue using X via VPN.
The deadline given to X to appoint a new legal representative in the country expired at 8.07pm local time on Thursday (0.07am BST on Friday). An hour later, Elon Musk’s social network announced that it would not comply.
The dispute began in April, when Moraes ordered the suspension of dozens of accounts for allegedly spreading disinformation – a request Musk has denounced as censorship.
Well, the details of each Musking are unique.
But Elon will promote disinformation from the CIA. But the problem is, he will ban or bury anyone who is pushing back against it.
It’s straight out of the “X” playbook!
Moraes’ April order to X to block some accounts stemmed from an investigation into “digital militias” who backed former president Jair Bolsonaro’s attempts to stay in power after his 2022 election defeat. After Musk refused to comply, the judge included him in his investigation.
It was also revealed on Thursday that on 18 August – a day after Musk announced the end of X’s operations in Brazil – Moraes blocked the local bank accounts for Musk’s satellite and internet provider Starlink. The aim was to enforce fines imposed on X – as of this Friday, R$18.3m (£2.5m) – for refusing to remove profiles accused of promoting anti-democratic acts and false news.
Look, I understand that this is a leftist demanding censorship of a right-winger.
But riddle me this, friendo:
Which one is calling for an end to the war in the Ukraine?
And which one supports Israel?
Which one is CIA?
🇺🇸🇧🇷U.S: WE ARE MONITORING 𝕏 BRAZIL ESCALATION
“The US Embassy is monitoring the situation between the Supreme Court and the X platform.
We emphasize that freedom of expression is a fundamental pillar in a healthy democracy.”
Source: @SamPancherpic.twitter.com/zVkSSOTCVC
— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) August 30, 2024