After being suspended nationwide at the end of August, X will be allowed back online in Brazil after paying a final fine. The platform was previously suspended for non-compliance with Brazilian court orders.
The platform was suspended nationwide at the end of August, a decision upheld by a panel of judges on Sept. 2.X has to pay one last fine before its ban is lifted in Brazil , according to a decision out Friday from the country's supreme court justice, Alexandre de Moraes.
Musk had vowed to defy the court's orders to take down certain accounts in Brazil. He called the court's actions"censorship," and railed online against de Moraes, describing the judge as a"In mid-August, Musk closed down X offices in Brazil. That left his company without a legal representative in the country, a federal requirement for all tech platforms to do business there.
By Aug. 28, de Moraes' court threatened a ban and fines if X didn't appoint a legal representative within 24 hours, and if it didn't comply with takedown requests for accounts the court said had engaged in plots to dox or harm federal agents, among other things. Musk bills himself as a free speech defender, but his track record suggests otherwise. Under his management, X removed content critical of ruling parties inof government take-down requests in 2023 over a comparable period the prior year, according to analysis by the tech news site
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