X Should Return To Brazil After Complying With Court Orders.

The social media company X has asked Brazilian Supreme Court to authorize the use of the platform in the country again. 

Elon Musk’s X profile

The Supreme Court ordered the suspension of X on August 30, citing the company’s failure to comply with orders to block accounts accused of spreading disinformation. Access to the platform has since been shut in the country.

X owner Elon Musk said: “Free speech is the bedrock of democracy and an unelected pseudo-judge in Brazil is destroying it for political purposes.”

Justice Alexandre de Moraes said in a ruling that X may only be reinstated in Brazil after satellite-based internet service provider Starlink, withdraws its appeals related to the case. Justice Moraes ordered the shutdown after sparring with Musk for months over free speech , far-right accounts and misinformation and froze Starlink’s accounts earlier this month, to cover X’s accumulating fines, which now exceed $3 million. The Brazilian justice argued the two companies are part of the same economic group — a justification that has been questioned by some legal experts. The judge additionally requested a new sum of 10 million Brazilian reais ((£1.38 million) fine when X became available again for some users in Brazil for a short time. Elon Musk’s platform, X, temporarily evaded Brazil ban by directing its traffic through Cloudflare.

The suspension of X has sparked a major controversy in Brazil with opinions split against the backdrop of political divides in the country. Former President Jair Bolsonaro and his supporters have criticized the court’s decision.