Brazil’s highest court orders X not to evade ban

Brasilia. The social network

“Just before 4:00 p.m. (7:00 p.m. GMT; 12:00 p.m. central Mexico time) X himself stopped using the Cloudflare service,” so the platform “is blocked,” he told the news agency. AFP news the advisor of the Brazilian Association of Internet and Telecommunications Providers (Abrint), Basílio Rodriguez Perez.

The AFP found that the social network is once again inaccessible on users’ phones, after the platform returned to widespread operation on Wednesday.

A judge of the Supreme Federal Court ordered tycoon Elon Musk’s platform to suspend new access to its application.

X It must “immediately suspend the use of its new accesses (…) under penalty of a daily fine of 5 million reais” (913 thousand dollars), according to the court order of magistrate Alexandre de Moraes.

The judge also ordered the Brazilian telecommunications agency Anatel to take all necessary measures to reestablish the blocking of X throughout the country.

Moraes ordered the suspension of the network on August 30 in Brazil for failing to comply with court orders to suspend accounts accused of disinformation and for refusing to name a legal representative in the country. Angry with the decision, Musk accused the magistrate of being an “evil dictator.”

The network was partially accessible again, thanks to a new update to its application that allowed it to make it difficult to identify its Internet addresses (IP).

“Deliberate intention

X assured that the reset was the “unintentional” consequence of a server change and that it was “temporary.”

But Anatel declared the opposite. According to that agency, social network X demonstrated its “deliberate intention to evade the Supreme Court order.”

According to internet providers, X accessed Cloudflare services, which allows companies to constantly change IPs, instead of having specific addresses.

In the early hours of Wednesday, as the app was automatically updating on millions of phones, Musk wrote on his X account: “Magic, when sufficiently advanced, is indistinguishable from technology,” in a message interpreted as a “provocation.” ” by the Brazilian press.

In his decision, Moraes saw Musk’s tweet as proof of his intentionality.

The “malicious, illicit and persistent resistance of platform

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