dictator and impostor – The Time

‘Shut down’ X in Brazil. Anyone trying to access it from a browser or app today is blocked by an error message, after a suspension order from the Supreme Court arrived for the platform in the last few hours. President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva also said goodbye to it with the ‘ban’ that came in the midst of a tug-of-war with Elon Musk after the failure to appoint a legal representative for X in Brazil. “Freedom of expression is the foundation of democracy,” Musk reacted, underlining in a post how “X is the most used news source in Brazil.”

Musk accuses Brazilian Supreme Court Judge Alexandre de Moraes of breaking the country’s laws by ordering X’s suspension amid a long-running dispute. And the X boss has promised that starting tomorrow morning he will begin publishing “the long list of crimes” he allegedly committed at the magistrate’s office, along with “the Brazilian laws he has broken.” “It is clear that he does not have to respect the laws of the United States, but those of his country,” Musk said in a series of posts on X, accusing the judge of being “a dictator and an impostor.” “The people of Brazil will learn of his crimes,” he insisted. “No matter how hard they try to prevent it.” And, he reiterated, “X is the most used news source in Brazil and that’s what people want.”