2024-08-17 22:16:00
The owner of social media platform X (formerly Twitter) announced on Saturday that it will close its operations in Brazil Musk. However, the service will continue to be available to Brazilian users.
“Due to demands from Brazilian ‘justice’ @Alexandre that we (secretly) violate Brazilian, Argentinian, U.S. and international laws, X has no choice but to shut down (its) local operations in Brazil,” Musk posted, referring to The judge of Brazil’s Supreme Court, Alexandre de Morais.
The organization claimed that it was forced to take this decision to “protect the safety of local employees”.
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Musk said De Morais “threatened” his legal representatives in Brazil to “arrest” him if he did not comply with the social network’s alleged “censorship” decisions aimed at blocking content.
“The decision to close the X office in Brazil was a difficult one,” Musk said. “If we accept Alexandre de Morais’ clandestine (illegal) censorship and his demands to transfer private information, we cannot explain our actions without shame”he pointed out.
He added that Alexandre de Moraes “is a disgrace to justice” and “he must go”, having described the magistrate as a “dictator” in the past.
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In recent years, de Morais has ordered the blocking of the accounts of influential figures in Brazil’s ultraconservative movement, largely because of attempts by Musk admirers and supporters of former President Jair Bolsonaro to smear the country’s presidential election. Electronic voting system.
In April this year, X admitted that multiple users with blocked accounts had successfully bypassed the restrictions.
Judge De Morais said: “Despite our numerous pending appeals to the Supreme Court, the Brazilian public is unaware of these rulings, and our Brazilian staff have no responsibility or liability for content blocked on our platform. control and therefore decided to threaten our staff.
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