Tue Sep 03 02:25:53 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 the company missed a court-imposed deadline to name a legal representative in Brazil.
– The judges said the suspension could be reversed if X complies with previous court rulings.
– Moraes’ original order called Musk an “outlaw” for allowing the spread of misinformation and hate speech on the platform.
– Musk decried the move as censorship and called Moraes a “dictator”.
– The ban threatens one of the company’s largest markets with an estimated 40 million users in Brazil.
– Starlink, another company owned by Musk, notified Brazil’s telecom regulator that it would not comply with the order to ban X.
– Starlink’s Brazilian bank accounts were frozen by Moraes in a separate dispute over unpaid fines.
– Anatel warned that Starlink could face sanctions, including having its local license revoked for resisting the ban.

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