{"id":1984,"date":"2024-11-12T09:21:41","date_gmt":"2024-11-12T09:21:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/brazils-supreme-court-upholds-nationwide-ban-on-elon-musks-x\/"},"modified":"2024-11-12T09:21:41","modified_gmt":"2024-11-12T09:21:41","slug":"brazils-supreme-court-upholds-nationwide-ban-on-elon-musks-x","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/brazils-supreme-court-upholds-nationwide-ban-on-elon-musks-x\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazil’s Supreme Court upholds nationwide ban on Elon Musk’s X"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Brazil’s Supreme Court has upheld a nationwide ban on X, the social media platform owned by Elon Musk<\/a>who has been openly feuding with a judge over the proliferation of right-wing political misinformation on the website. <\/p>\n

A Supreme Court panel decision on Monday affirmed a Friday ruling from Alexandre de Moraes, a Brazilian Supreme Court justice, to suspend X over concerns about disinformation and the company’s refusal to appoint a local legal representative as required by law. Moraes also said that users who circumvent the ban with a virtual private network, or VPN, could be fined 50,000 reais — or roughly $9,000 — a day.<\/p>\n

Moraes has aggressively cracked down on online disinformation in the past few years in what he has described as a bid to protect Brazilian democracy. His suspension of X was the culmination of months of escalating tensions between him and Musk, who has used the platform to amplify right-wing grievances over “free speech” in Brazil and accuse Moraes of trying to suppress right-wing voices on X<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Last month, after Moraes threatened arrests over X’s refusal to comply with orders to suspend some accounts, Musk shuttered the company’s office in Brazil.<\/p>\n

The billionaire has called for Moraes’ imprisonment and lobbed personal attacks against the justice. Starlink, Musk’s satellite internet service provider, has also refused to comply<\/a> with Moraes’ order to block access to X, setting up another conflict with the justice.<\/p>\n

Musk has selectively portrayed himself as a free-speech crusader in line with the hard-right turn of his personal politics<\/a>. He has increasingly used X as a platform for his political views, amplifying right-wing conspiracy theories<\/a> and boosting far-right leaders <\/a>across the globe, including GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump<\/a>whom he endorsed in July. His feud with Moraes has also positioned him as a major player in trying to revive<\/a> former President Jair Bolsonaro’s flagging political power. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Clarissa-Jan Lim<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Clarissa-Jan Lim is a breaking\/trending news blogger for BLN Digital. She was previously a senior reporter and editor at BuzzFeed News.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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