Feudal State
Elon Musk is playing with political fire again amid his ongoing feud with a Brazilian Supreme Court justice — and for once, the brazen billionaire may be right.
Although the fight that could, as CNBC And other points of sale reportWhat led to the suspension of X, formerly Twitter, in Brazil has escalated dramatically in the past week. The roots of Musk’s feud with federal judge Alexandre de Moraes go back many months.
The debacle started in April, when Moraes ordered specific accounts to be suspended in the country’s all-out fight against disinformation. Although X initially compliedMusk wasn’t exactly happy about it and eventually said that he… lifting of the suspensions and alleged that Moraes had “imposed huge fines, threatened to arrest our employees and cut off access to X in Brazil.”
“As a result, we will likely lose all revenue in Brazil and will have to close our office there,” the site owner said. wrote in a tweet from April“But principles are more important than profits.”
In response to this, the judge opened an investigation in Musk himself, and after that months of barb trading in the meantime the owner of the site chose to close X’s Brazilian operations in mid-August, after Moraes threatened to arrest the social network’s lawyer if he did not comply with the company’s orders.
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Following that arrest threat, X recalled his original lawyer, a move that clearly angered Moraes, who took the site to the 24 hour deadline has now passed to appoint a new legal representative or face a ban in Brazil. With the ban looming, the judge also ordered Starlink’s assets in the country to be frozen to ensure X pays its fines, the Portuguese language outlet G1 previously reported during the week.
While much of this contentious legal battle clearly revolves around two outsized egos clashing, it certainly appears that Moraes is going too far. and not for the first time — in his apparent crusade against disinformation.
Now that the judge’s deadline to appoint a new lawyer has passed, Brazil and the rest of the world must wait to see whether he makes good on his threat of a suspension.
Meanwhile, Musk is expanding on his condemnation of “angry dictator“Moraes on X — which, for all its fairness, is probably a foolish way to deal with such a difficult referee.
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