Elon Musk announced that the X offices in Brazil will close their doors

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“X has no choice but to close our local operations in Brazil,” wrote Elon Musk. “Service X is available to Brazilians,” said a separate company publication.

The group said the decision was made to “protect the safety” of its staff at the site. He assured that Judge Alexandre de Moraes threatened to arrest our legal representative in Brazil in case of non-compliance with the decisions of what the social network called “censorship” aimed at blocking certain content.

“The decision to close the X offices in Brazil was a difficult one,” said Elon Musk. “But if we accept Alexandre de Moraes' demands for secret (illegal) censorship and the transfer of private information, we cannot explain our actions without shame. »

Alexandre de Moraes is “a disgrace to justice” and “must be let go”, he added of the man he previously described as a “dictator”.

In the name of the fight against disinformation, the magistrate ordered the blocking of the accounts of people influential in Brazilian ultraconservative movements in recent years.

This was especially the case since the efforts of supporters of Elon Musk's admirer Jair Bolsonaro to discredit the electronic voting system during the presidential election won by Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.

In April, X admitted that users of several blocked accounts were able to bypass the restrictions.

“Because our Brazilian staff has no responsibility or control over the content blocked on our platform, the Brazilian public, who is unaware of these rulings, despite the numerous appeals we have made to the Supreme Court that we have not heard,” said Judge Moraes, “choosing to threaten our staff. Brazil rather than respect the law and its procedures.” The social network said on Saturday.