X (formerly Twitter) could soon resume its services in Brazil if it is willing to pay additional fines.
Reuters and other publications reported on Supreme Court Judge Alexandre de Moraes’ order that the Elon Musk-owned social network “can immediately return to its activities in the country” if it pays a fine of 10 million reais (about $1.90). million).
This includes 18.3 million reais ($3.4 million) already in fines. Brazil has frozen accounts belonging to X and Musk’s satellite internet company, Starlink, to pay the fines, but to move forward, Moraes said Starlink must drop its appeal of the payments.
For most of this year, (Musk said Moraes “must resign or be impeached.”) The company eventually suspended operations in Brazil and was banned from entering the country in late August.
The ban led to a surge in the popularity of rival services, including Bluesky.
But recently, Moraes told the company to pay this additional fine after X appeared to circumvent the ban and resume domestic services earlier this month. It seems to be a “coincidence” caused by X switching to Cloudflare infrastructure.
“We recognize and respect the sovereignty of the countries in which we operate,” X’s Global Government Affairs account wrote in a post Thursday, arguing that providing access to Brazilian users was “essential to a thriving democracy” and acquiesced. It appears to have been acknowledged. ”
