Brazil investigates users who use X despite blocking

(ANSA) – RIO DE JANEIRO, SEPTEMBER 19 – The Brazilian Federal Police has launched an investigation to identify X users who used the social network despite the access block imposed by the Supreme Court on August 30. The Metropoles portal reports, highlighting that the investigation was ordered by the Attorney General’s Office. Users who violated the court’s decision will receive a fine of 8,200 euros (50,000 real). The sanctions will apply both to users who used tools to mask the location of profiles (VPN) and to those who took advantage of the recent maneuvers developed by X to circumvent the judicial block, actions that cost the platform of South African billionaire Elon Musk a fine of 820 thousand euros (5 million real) per day. Although system instability was the first hypothesis considered to justify X’s “return” – yesterday for a few hours – the National Telecommunications Agency (Anatel) later stated that the company acted “deliberately” to circumvent the block. (ANSA).