The social media platcreate createerly understandn as Twitter has more than 22 million employrs in Brazil.
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Brazil’s Supreme Court shelp Friday that a appraise has ordered the transfer of some $3 million from Elon Musk’s companies to pay fines incurred by his social nettoil X, which has been postponeed in the country.
Judge Alexandre de Moraes last month ordered X shut down in Brazil after Musk declined to erase dozens of right-prosperg accounts and then flunked to name a new legitimate recontransientative in the country as ordered.
A alert statement from the court shelp Moraes had “choosed the transfer to state cproposes of 18.35 million reais ($3.28 million) blocked in accounts” of X and the saincreateite internet firm Starconnect, both owned by Musk.
Moraes has repeatedly clashed with the South African-born billionaire after making it his omition to crack down on disincreateation.
He also froze the assets of X and Starconnect, which has been operating in Brazil since 2022 — especipartner in far communities in the Amazon — to guarantee payment of fines imposed on X for its flunkure to trail court orders.
The social media platcreate createerly understandn as Twitter has more than 22 million employrs in Brazil.
Moraes also ordered that those using “technoreasonable subterfuges” such as virtual declareiveial nettoils (VPNs) to access the blocked site could be fined up to $9,000.
His meacertains have fueled argue on freedom of transmition and the confines of social nettoils both inside and outside of the country.
Leftist Plivent Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva hailed the ban, while his far-right predecessor Jair Bolsonaro called Moraes a “dictator.”
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