2 weeks Ago By Emma Roth
A judge in Brazil has ordered the suspension of X after owner Elon Musk failed to designate a new legal representative for the country, according to . Earlier this month, , saying Brazilian Supreme Court justice Alexandre de Moraes threatened to arrest the company’s legal representative for not complying with “censorship orders.” Brazil’s Supreme Court that if it didn’t appoint a new legal representative within 24 hours, it would be banned.
Musk and Moraes have been feuding for months. The Brazilian justice into X in April after Musk said he reactivated accounts that X was ordered to block over the spread of misinformation. As , many of the accounts Moraes ordered X to block are linked to supporters of the right-wing former President Jair Bolsonaro.
“We are absolutely not insisting that other countries have the same free speech laws as the United States,” X said in from its global government affairs account. “The fundamental issue at stake here is that Judge de Moraes demands we break Brazil’s own laws. We simply won’t do that.
” In that post, X also said it would publish “all of Judge de Moraes’ illegal demands and all related court filings.” Brazil requires major platforms to have a legal representative in the country. It has briefly banned other major social platforms in the past as well, including and .
Starlink, part of another Elon Musk-affiliated company, SpaceX, said Thursday that Moraes also gave an order that . “This order is based on an unfounded determination that Starlink should be responsible for the fines levied — unconstitutionally — against X,” . /.
