The Platform X It confirms that Brazil has complied with all the demands of the Supreme Court and requests to unblock the social network in the country, a source close to the case confirmed to AFP this Thursday.
Old Twitter Latin America’s most populous country has been suspended since August 31 A judge of the Supreme Federal Court (STF) has allegedly failed to comply with court orders requiring him to withdraw the accounts he allegedly misrepresented and to appoint a legal representative in Brazil.
Presented by a company owned by entrepreneur Elon Musk New documents requested by Magistrate of the STF, Alexandre de Moraes, therefore stated that he has already complied with all the demands of the Brazilian legal system, said the source, who requested anonymity.
Ensuring compliance with the order, the network will request its renewal in Brazil until its suspension It has 22 million users.
X He is “devoted to defence Freedom of expression within the limits of the law” and respects the “sovereignty of countries” where it operates, according to a tweet published late Thursday on its Global Government Affairs account.
“We believe the Brazilian population needs access to X A dynamic democracy And we will continue to protect freedom of expression through due legal process,” he added in a message in English and Portuguese. The company had in the previous days appointed a legal representative in Brazil, one of the necessary steps to return to operation.
But in a legal document released Saturday, Moraes said the requirement to restore the service was “not properly met” and gave him a deadline.e Five days to submit new documents. He ordered X to pay a fine of at least five million reais ($913,000) per day for violating the suspension last week.
social network last Wednesday Thanks to technological maneuvering it has become widely available again in Brazil It allowed him to bypass the blockade. The next day she stopped working again after complying with the court order.
X argued that this temporary recovery was an “unintended” consequence of the server change, but Moraes thought it was intentional. “Harmful, Illegal and Persistent Platform X” to circumvent justice. When contacted, X’s representation in Brazil, the Pinheiro Neto law firm, indicated that it would not comment on the new documents submitted. On its part, the STF said it is keeping the gist of the case confidential.
Moraes and Musk are fighting over limits on free speech. After X’s suspension, Musk called the magistrate an “evil dictator.” Moraes, for his part, accused the platform of allowing it The spread of information is a threat to democracy.
