Newscasts - Musk's X back online in Brazil after bowing to court demands

Bluesky Digital Assets

09/10/2024 04:35

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Description: Brazil's Supreme Court cleared X to resume service in the country
on Tuesday, after the social media platform reversed course and started
complying with court rulings billionaire owner Elon Musk had previously vowed
to resist. Julian Satterthwaite reports.
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Elon Musk’s X is back in business in Brazil. On Tuesday, the
country’s Supreme Court allowed the social network to resume service.
That’s after X started complying with rulings Musk has previously vowed
to fight. The platform had been blocked in one of its largest markets since
late August, after it refused to comply with orders regarding the moderation
of hate speech. X also failed to name a legal representative in the country,
as required by law. Musk denounced the orders as “censorship”,
calling Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes a “dictator”.
However, he started to reverse course over recent weeks. X has since blocked
accounts listed by the court, named a local representative, and paid pending
fines. In Tuesday’s ruling, Moraes ordered Brazil’s telecoms
regulator to allow the social network back online within 24 hours. X said it
was proud to return, and would “continue to defend freedom of speech,
within the boundaries of the law”. Brazil’s communications minister
called the outcome a “victory for the country”. The standoff had
seen many users in Brazil migrate to rival platforms like Bluesky and Threads,
owned by Facebook-parent Meta. That threatened to undermine X in what was its
sixth-biggest market worldwide, with over 21 million users as of April