Suspension Of X In Brazil; Musk Vows To Publish The Judge's "Long List Of Crimes"
A Supreme Court in Brazil ordered suspension of Elon Musk’s X social media network in the country. The order came after Musk failed to comply with an order to name a new legal representative for the company. The Tech-tycoon and he judge, Alexandre de Moraes has been locked with month-long feud. On Wednesday, the latter ask Musk “to appoint the company’s new legal representative in Brazil within 24 hours” or face suspension.
Responding to the issue, Musk called the judge a “dictator and a fraud, not a justice”. He said X will start to publish a “long list” of crimes committed by Alexandre, “along with specific Brazilian laws that he broke”, tomorrow. Musk said Though Moraes does not need to abide by US, “he does need to abide by his own country’s laws”.
Musk also called him an “evil dictator cosplaying as a judge”, who is “trying to destroy democracy in Brazil.
We willl begin publishing the long list of @Alexandre’s crimes, along with the specific Brazilian laws that he broke tomorrow.
Obviously, he does not need to abide by US law, but he does need to abide by his own country’s laws.
He is a dictator and a fraud, not a justice. https://t.co/m93B1r0v98
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 31, 2024
Moraes ordered the “immediate, complete and comprehensive suspension of the operation of ‘X Brasil Internet LTDA’ in the national territory”. He asked the National Telecommunications Agency (Anatel) to “adopt all necessary measures to implement” the order within 24 hours.
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The judge also asked Google, Apple, and internet providers to “introduce technological obstacles capable of preventing the use of the X application” and access to the website.
Elon Musk shut the X’s business operations in Brazil earlier this month. He claimed that Moraes had threatened the company’s previous legal representative with arrest to force compliance with “censorship orders.
The conflict between Moraes and Musk started when the former ordered the suspension of several X accounts belonging to supporters of Brazil’s former far-right president Jair Bolsonaro.
Reportedly, Bolsonaro tried to discredit the voting system in the 2022 election, which he lost. The Brazilian authorities are investigating whether Bolsonaro plotted a coup attempt to prevent current President Lula da Silva from assuming office in January 2023, said media report.
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The online figures blocked by Moraes include figures like Daniel Silveira, far-right ex-congressman, who was sentenced to nine years in prison in 2022 on charges of leading a movement to overthrow the Supreme Court.
In April this year, he ordered an investigation against Musk, accusing him of reactivating some of the banned accounts on the network formerly known as Twitter.
