Brazilian Supreme Court panel upholds X ban, while Starlink refuses to comply

A sheet of 5 Brazilian Supreme Court justices voted Monday to uphold a decision (PDF) requiring the National Telecommunications Agency (Anatel) to bounds entree to X, the work formerly known arsenic Twitter. Justice Alexandre de Moraes issued the prohibition connected Friday successful effect to X proprietor Elon Musk’s refusal to comply with tribunal orders to artifact definite accounts and to place a ineligible typical successful the country. Four different justices person present backed the decision.

Poder360 and The Globe study that 3 justices, Cristiano Zanin, Flávio Dino, and Cármen Lúcia, afloat supported de Moraes’ ruling, portion a fourth, Luiz Fux, noted reservations astir a good for radical who circumvent the prohibition with a VPN, saying lone radical who station transgression messages similar those expressing Nazism oregon fascism should beryllium fined.

As acold arsenic the ban’s effect, competing platforms person reported ample numbers of new accounts made by Brazilian users. News enactment Poder360 noted that its X relationship volition present beryllium managed exclusively from Portugal to respect the judge’s decision.

Meanwhile, Starlink has told Brazil’s telecom regulator, Anatel, that it volition not comply with the prohibition until the tribunal unfreezes its assets. So far, X is reportedly inactive accessible via the service. The New York Times reports de Moraes has blocked Starlink from making Brazilian transactions portion the tribunal seeks to cod $3 cardinal successful unpaid fines by X. The satellite-based net work is operated by SpaceX, which is besides partially owned by Musk.

Poder360 reports that the tribunal bid gave net providers arsenic good arsenic app stores 5 days to instrumentality measures to artifact entree to X successful the country, establishing a deadline connected Wednesday, September 4th.