X is back online in Brazil after officials lifted a ban that kept the service offline for five weeks. Supreme Court Judge Alexander de Moraes As the company complies with the court’s demands, regulators “may take steps to restore the service of the platform.”
The order ends a long-running dispute between Elon Musk’s X and Moraes. Moraes had asked X to block certain accounts in Brazil in what the company described as “censorship orders”. Controversy too his Brazilian bank accounts were initially frozen after X To cooperate with the demands of the Supreme Court. The company eventually settled by freezing the accounts in question and paying the relatives in fines.
“X is proud to return to Brazil. Giving tens of millions of Brazilians access to our invaluable platform was essential throughout this process,” the company wrote. . “We will continue to defend freedom of speech within the limits of the law wherever we operate.”
While the standoff may now be over, X’s cut in Brazil helped bolster at least one competitor: Bluesky. The service, which began as a project at Twitter under former CEO Jack Dorsey, says it’s adding more new users in the days immediately following the ban.
