Social network X stopped working again in Brazil on Thursday, after the court ordered it to do without the cybersecurity service that allowed it to avoid its suspension in the country, the internet providers’ union said.
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“Just before 4:00 p.m. X himself stopped using Cloudflare’s service,” so the platform “is blocked,” “The Brazilian Association of Internet and Telecommunications Providers (Abrint), Basílio Rodriguez Perez, told AFP.
AFP has found that the social network is once again inaccessible on users’ phones, after it was fully operational again last Wednesday.
A Supreme Court judge ordered Elon Musk’s platform to block new access to its application.
X must “immediately suspend the use of its new accesses (…) under penalty of a daily fine of 5 million reals” (USD 913,000), according to the court order of Judge Alexandre de Moraes.
The judge also ordered the Brazilian telecommunications agency Anatel to take all necessary measures to reinstate the blocking of X.
Moraes ordered the suspension of the social network on August 30 in Brazil for violating court orders to remove accounts accused of disinformation and to appoint a legal representative in the country.
Angry at the decision, Musk accused the judge of being an “evil dictator.”
The network has become partially accessible again thanks to an update to its application that has made it more difficult to identify its IP addresses.
X said the reset was an “unintended” consequence of a server change and was “temporary.”
“Deliberate intention”
But Anatel declared the opposite. According to the agency, social network X demonstrated its “deliberate intention to circumvent the Supreme Court’s order.”
According to the internet providers, X accessed Cloudflare services, which allow companies to constantly change IP addresses, rather than 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,” a message interpreted as a “provocation” by the Brazilian press.
In his decision, Moraes presented Musk’s message as proof of his intentions.
The “malicious, unlawful and persistent resistance of Platform X to comply with court orders was directly confessed by its largest shareholder, Elon Musk, in publishing” that tweet, the judge said.
He also urged X to appoint a legal representative in Brazil within 24 hours.
Brazilian prosecutors on Thursday requested an investigation into users who took advantage of the social network’s blockade on Wednesday to promote attacks on the Supreme Court.
By blocking X in August, Moraes warned the 22 million users in Brazil that anyone who violates the order by accessing the platform through “subterfuge” such as virtual private networks (VPNs) expose you to daily fines of 50,000 reais, equivalent to about 9,000 dollars.
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Source: https://www.noticiascaracol.com/mundo/red-social-x-deja-de-funcionar-por-completo-en-brasil-por-orden-de-un-juez-cb20
