Ban remains in Brazil. X makes a serious mistake when paying a fine
Oct 5, 2024, 4:26 a.m. Listen to article
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Platform X violates several regulations in Brazil and will be blocked. Owner Musk rages against Judge de Moraes, but gradually submits. In the end, a million-dollar fine is still missing. The company now pays them too. But something goes wrong.
In Brazil, the Supreme Court has postponed the decision on the resumption of the services of the short message service X. The reason for this was that the social media platform paid the fines imposed on it to the wrong bank, the court told X’s lawyers on Friday (local time). In his decision, Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes demanded that the payment must be transferred to the correct bank. He also stipulated that the Brazilian Attorney General should comment on the latest requests from X’s legal team in Brazil once the payment of the fines has been clarified.
Previously, US billionaire Elon Musk’s Twitter successor submitted a new application to resume its services in Brazil and said it had paid all outstanding fines. On Friday, X paid a fine of 4.8 million euros to get its platform unblocked in the important Brazilian market. According to a document seen by the Reuters news agency, the platform paid a fine of 28.6 million reals imposed by the Supreme Court. According to the document, however, this is only part of the penalty amount.
At the end of August, the court ordered X to be blocked in Brazil due to several legal violations. Musk took this as a personal feud with the judge in charge, Alexandre de Moraes, calling him a “dictator” and accusing him of “censorship”. With around 215 million inhabitants, South America’s largest democracy is one of the most populous countries in the world and almost half the size of the European Union.
According to the court, The company’s attempts to meet only part of the court’s demands had failed. Moraes had also brought into play a confiscation of frozen assets from X and from Musk’s satellite company Starlink. He had also threatened private individuals and companies who were able to circumvent the block as users with severe penalties in this case.
