Social media platform announced. announced Over the weekend.
The request comes about a month after “anti-fake news” activist De Moraes. prohibited Brazil's Access to X Platform initially refused to comply with censorship orders against the user group and also refused to appoint new legal representatives in the country.
After initially loudly denouncing the Brazilian government's demands, announced The company announced that it would comply with the censorship mandated by the Brazilian courts and reinstate Rachel de Oliveira Villa as its legal representative in Brazil. Twitter reportedly formally requested that de Moraes be allowed to return to Brazil, subject to compliance with the censorship order and other requirements ordered by the court.
demolas, ruling The report published on Friday confirmed that X has complied with all court-issued censorship orders and appointed a legal representative in the country as requested by Brazil's Supreme Court. Nevertheless, he made the platform's reinstatement in the country conditional on paying a new $1.8 million fine.
The fine was imposed in response to the platform's “two-day failure to comply” with the mid-September ban, according to the ruling. On that day, the user reportedly You can access the X Platform from within Brazil. X described the incident as “inadvertent and temporary”; cause Connect to your Latin American network provider's switch.
In addition to the $1.80 fine, the court also fined the social media platform's legal representative Rachel de Oliveira Villa 300,000 Brazilian reals (approximately $55,284). According to the ruling, this amount is based on cumulative fines of 20,000 reais (approximately $3,656) per day imposed on legal representatives in mid-August, when X Platform failed to comply with court orders. It is.
“According to the judgment rendered in Petition (PET) No. 12404, X has demonstrated that it has fully complied with the two requirements necessary for resumption of activity, namely the blocking of profiles and the appointment of a legal representative of the company in the country.” said. STF announced. “However, the payment of fines for non-compliance with the decision has not yet been proven.”
In the ruling, the STF ordered the Brazilian Central Bank to order the accounts of the He said he ordered him to be blocked. The court required X to inform it whether the amount withheld by the court order would be used to pay the fine and whether it would withdraw its appeal against both the original ban and the fine.
“The judgment states that the lifting of the suspension of the operation of the X Platform in the country and the consequent immediate return to its activities depends solely on full compliance with Brazilian law.” read“absolute observance of judicial decisions in respect for national sovereignty”.
Company X's decision to comply with Mr. de Moraes' censorship order comes after Mr. Musk initially refused to comply with the censorship order. This comes after months of direct feuding between the two. musk accused He was the judge for fraud in Brazil's 2022 election, in which far-left President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva narrowly defeated then-conservative incumbent President Jair Bolsonaro.
During the 2022 Brazilian presidential election, Mr. de Moraes imposed the following policies: censorship Bolsonaro's campaign was prohibited from describing Lula, who has multiple convictions on corruption charges, as a “thief” or “criminal.”
Mr. de Moraes has spearheaded a wide-ranging, years-long censorship campaign against conservative Brazilians, politicians, journalists and comedians who support Mr. Bolsonaro. he ordered the police raid and arrest These individuals will also be removed, as well as their social media accounts across multiple platforms, including X, Facebook, YouTube, and Instagram. Some people's bank accounts have been frozen.
Last week, during his activities speech Lula defended Brazil's censorship of conservative figures at the United Nations General Assembly, saying it was necessary to “defend democracy.”
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Christian K. Caruso is a Venezuelan writer who chronicles life under socialism. You can follow him on Twitter here.
