Tue Sep 03 10:26:50 UTC 2024: – All five judges on a Supreme Court panel in Brazil have voted to uphold a ban on Elon Musk’s X social media platform
– The ban was ordered by Justice Alexandre de Moraes after X missed a court-imposed deadline to name a legal representative in Brazil
– The ban was put in place due to concerns over misinformation, hate speech, and attacks on the democratic rule of law
– Musk has decried the ban as censorship and called Moraes a dictator
– The ban threatens one of X’s largest markets in Brazil, where there are an estimated 40 million users
– Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva supports the ban
– Starlink, another company owned by Musk, has notified Brazil’s telecom regulator that it will not comply with the ban
– Anatel warned Starlink of potential sanctions, including having its local license revoked if it continues to resist the ban.

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