A day later X started In Brazil, the country’s Supreme Court, which is online for some people, is threatening Starlink, a social media company and owned by Elon Musk. . In a new order posted online, Supreme Court judge Alexandre de Moraes ordered regulators to “reactivate” the blocking of X and said the two companies could be fined about $1 million a day for failure to do so.
The Moraes, who has been sparring publicly with Musk for months, comes after the X became available again to many users in Brazil on Wednesday. The company said in an earlier statement that the change was an “incidental and temporary resurgence of sickness” caused by changing network providers.
After Brazil’s ban last month, X reportedly switched to using Cloudflare’s servers in the region, making it harder for Brazilian providers to enforce blocking. Company it has switched network providers to “serve Latin America” and said it expects its service in Brazil to be back offline “soon”.
Moraes now says X could be fined the equivalent of $921,000 a day starting September 19 for each day of “non-compliance” with the ban. Starlink, who saw the Brazilian earlier frozen during the dispute, under the order X faces “joint liability” if he fails to pay. Moraes also ordered the country’s internet regulator to “take immediate measures to prevent access to the platform by blocking ‘CDN Cloudflare, Fastly and EdgeUno’ servers and other similar servers created to evade the court order that stopped the old Twitter operation.” in Brazil.”
X did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
