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| Brazil’s Supreme Court has just lifted the ban on 𝕏 in the Country | |
| 2024-10-09 | |
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According to a statement, the site has paid fines totalling 28 million reais ($5.1m; £3.8m) and agreed to appoint a local representative, as required by Brazilian law. Moraes had blocked access to the platform, owned by Elon Musk, after it had refused to ban several profiles deemed by the government to be spreading misinformation about the 2022 Brazilian Presidential election. Anatel, Brazil's telecoms watchdog, has been instructed to ensure service has resumed for more than 20 million users in the country within 24 hours. After months of defying the court’s orders, Musk fired the company’s Brazilian staff in late August and closed X's office in Brazil. Many users switched to alternative sites such as Bluesky, and demand for VPNs (Virtual Proxy Networks) in Brazil soared. But in September, the platform began to comply with the court's orders in an apparent U-turn. On Tuesday, X said that it was "proud to return to Brazil". "Giving tens of millions of Brazilians access to our indispensable platform was paramount throughout this entire process," its government affairs team wrote in a statement. It appears that X has now complied with all of the judge’s demands in order to have the ban lifted. Brazil is one of the biggest markets for the platform across the globe, as well as its largest in Latin America, with an estimated 22 million users. | |
| Posted by:3dc |
| #1 X didn't win. It had to block the accounts the gov wanted blocked, pay $5.1m in fines, and give the name of a local attorney they can arrest if the gov gets mad at them again. That's not a win. They did what they they were told. |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2024-10-09 08:47 |