X (formerly Twitter) could soon resume its services in Brazil if it is willing to pay additional fines.
Reuters and other publications reported on Supreme Court Judge Alexandre de Moraes’ order that the Elon Musk-owned social network “can immediately return to its activities in the country” if it pays a fine of 10 million reais (about $1.90). million).
This includes the 18.3 million reais ($3.4 million) that X has already been fined. Brazil has frozen accounts belonging to X and Musk’s satellite internet company, Starlink, to pay the fines, but to move forward, Moraes said Starlink must drop its appeal of the payments.
For most of this year, (Musk said Moraes “must resign or be impeached.”) The company eventually ceased operations in Brazil and was banned from doing so in late August.
The ban led to a surge in the popularity of rival services, including Bluesky.
But recently, Moraes ordered the company to pay this additional fine after X appeared to circumvent the ban and resume domestic services earlier this month. It appears to be a “coincidence” caused by X’s switch to Cloudflare infrastructure.
X’s Global Government Affairs account appears to have acknowledged the acquiescence, writing in a post Thursday that “we recognize and respect the sovereignty of the countries in which we operate,” and asserting that providing access to Brazilian users is “essential to a thriving democracy.” I see it. ”
