Tue Sep 03 18:07:13 UTC 2024: – All five judges on a Supreme Court panel uphold the ban on Elon Musk’s X social media platform in Brazil
– Justice Alexandre de Moraes ordered the ban after X missed a court-imposed deadline
– Justices cited concerns of misinformation and hate speech as reasons for upholding the ban
– Musk decried the move as censorship and called Moraes a dictator
– The ban threatens one of X’s largest markets with an estimated 40 million users in Brazil
– Starlink, another company owned by Musk, announced it would not comply with the ban on X
– Anatel, Brazil’s telecom regulator, warned Starlink of possible sanctions for defying the ban
– President Lula da Silva expressed satisfaction with the Supreme Court’s decision.

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