Twitter woke up today without videos of Spider-Man dancing the samba and Chavo del Ocho doing somersaults. Internet providers in Brazil blocked access to X after the country’s Supreme Court ordered the service suspended.

Under fine. The decision was made after X failed to comply with an order emailed to Elon Musk on Wednesday to appoint a legal representative in Brazil within 24 hours.

Judge Alexandre de Moraes ordered the closure

Judge orders VPNs to be blocked. Brazil’s internet providers began blocking access to X at midnight Saturday.

Judge Moraes also requested Apple and Google to block the offering of VPN applications in their virtual stores to prevent users from continuing to access the service via virtual networks.

The Brazilians said goodbye. Brazil became the third country with the most active users on Twitter, which changed its name to X after Elon Musk bought the platform in October 2022. Brazilians took advantage of these days to say goodbye to the social network.

In response, users from all over the world bid farewell to Brazilians by posting some of the most famous memes and videos to come out of Brazil.

Alexandre de Moraes vs. Elon Musk. The blocking of X is the result of a long-running, public battle between Moraes, minister of the Brazilian Supreme Federal Court, and the billionaire owner of the application.

De Moraes has long led a crusade against fake news and hate speech in Brazil, where a judge has issued multiple injunctions to suspend accounts, mostly on far-right X, which Musk faces in April 2023. reopening of some accounts The Brazilian Supreme Court was forced to close.

The straw that breaks the camel’s back. The blockade comes just days after X decided to close its offices in Brazil. Elon Musk’s company took the decision in response to Moraes’ threat to arrest his legal representative in the country if he did not proceed with the closure of illegal accounts.

The same thing happened when Moraes ordered the suspension of Telegram in March 2022 after the Dubai-based messaging service refused to block certain accounts used by Bolsonaro supporters to spread misinformation, according to the ruling.

There is Bolsonaro in the middle. Musk met with Jair Bolsonaro in May 2022, praising him as a “legend of freedom,” but the businessman’s support was not enough to get the far-right former president re-elected in Brazil.

Lula da Silva, who won the elections in October 2022, has now shown his support for Moraes and strongly criticized Musk’s stance: “Who does he think he is? Just because this guy has a lot of money doesn’t mean he doesn’t have to respect the laws of our country.”

The persecution of far-right frauds in Brazil, including Moraes’ legal battle against X, worsened in early 2023 when followers of former President Bolsonaro occupied government buildings.

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On Xataka | Brazil has been at war with Twitter for months, with its Supreme Court threatening to block the service nationwide