This is a decision in retaliation for the failure to appoint a legal representative in the country. Fines worth almost 3 million euros are being demanded from the social network formerly known as Twitter for not removing content.
Brazil’s Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes on Friday ordered the suspension of social network X in retaliation for the failure to appoint a legal representative at the South American giant.
De Moraes has already reported the decision to the National Telecommunications Agency, which now has 24 hours to implement it. In addition, Apple and Google’s online stores must remove the X application within a maximum of five days.
The judge is imposing daily fines of up to 50,000 reais (about 8,000 euros) against people or companies that use alternative measures to circumvent the ban and access X, the social network formerly called Twitter and now owned by tycoon Elon Musk, reports the portal G1 news.
The company, which is being sued in Brazil fines worth 18 million reais (about 2.9 million euros) for not removing contenthad already assumed that it would be a matter of hours before De Moraes ordered the closure. In a statement, he warned that he “will not comply with illegal orders to censor political opponents.”
Also Musk He has filed a complaint against the magistrate in recent hours, with messages calling him a “dictator” and a “criminal of the worst kind.” The businessman believes that Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silvais “his lap dog.”
The president, for his part, has responded that “any citizen from any part of the world who has investments in Brazil is subject to the Constitution and Brazilian laws”, that he “must accept the rules”, and that not because he has a lot of money he can “disrespect” and “insult” the country’s authorities.
Source: EITB
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