Elon Musk’s X returned in Brazil on Tuesday after being banned for more than a month. A judge issued the ban after the platform refused to block certain accounts it said were spreading false information.
The platform had been suspended in Brazil since late August, but was reactivated after it complied with an order to delete certain accounts, paid a fine and appointed a new legal representative in the country, The New York Times reported. Reported. reported.
“X is proud to return to Brazil,” the company said. I wrote In the post. “Throughout this process, it has been paramount that we provide tens of millions of Brazilians with access to our essential platform. Everywhere we operate, we protect freedom of speech within the limits of the law. I will continue to protect it.” (Related: Major Democratic Party figures and liberal organizations remain silent on Brazil’s Elon Musk’s ban on X)
Brazil allowed X to return to Brazil. Some are celebrating this as a “victory for free speech.”
Please don’t do that. It is the opposite, a victory for authoritarian state censors.
To get back, X was forced to comply with all demands, including a ban on all censored accounts and huge fines. pic.twitter.com/6juDwDUtDp
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) October 9, 2024
The company also agreed to pay a $5.1 million fine. According to To Axios.
“The company has complied with the conditions set by the rapporteur, Minister Alexandre de Moraes, so the platform may be used by Brazilians again,” Brazil’s Supreme Court said. announced in a statement Tuesday.
Formerly Mr. Musk slammed Judge Alexandre de Moraes, who issued the order against X, was an “evil dictator dressed up as a judge.” De Moraes closed the platform’s offices in Brazil on August 17 after he threatened to arrest his legal representatives.
“Free speech is the bedrock of democracy, and Brazil’s unelected fake judges are destroying it for political purposes,” Musk wrote in an Aug. 30 paper. post With X.
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