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In the latest round of the dispute between Elon Musk and Brazil’s top court, a senior judge has accused X of a “willful, illegal and persistent” effort to circumvent a court-ordered block – and imposed a fine of R$5m ($921,676) for each day the social network remains online.

The social media platform formerly known as Twitter, which has been banned by court order since 30 August, on Wednesday became accessible to many users in Brazil after an update that used cloud services offered by third parties, such as Cloudflare, Fastly and Edgeuno.

This allowed some Brazilian users to access X without the need for a VPN -- which is also prohibited in the country.

Late on Wednesday, X described its reappearance in Brazil as an "inadvertent and temporary service restoration to Brazilian users".

But the influential supreme court justice Alexandre de Moraes -- who ordered the original ban as part of an attempt to crack down on anti-democratic, far-right voices -- on Thursday described the move as a deliberate attempt "to circumvent the court's blocking order".

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[–] Badeendje@lemmy.world 9 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

So if a company is required to have a legal representative in a country, so the government has someone to talk to instead of getting a poop emoji email. And the company says.. nah, we're good.. this is fine?

And if posts on a social media, active in a country, break the laws of a country, that's fine too?

Because if someone would start putting out tweets for selling suicide powder in the US, or a school shooting DIY kit.. that would be taken down too.

Probably making the tweets unavailable in Brazil/for Brazilian users would have been enough.. but Mr .. "I'm agitating for someone to try and assassinate harris" thinks it should be allowed.

Courts are there for a reason. If they (Twitter) do not want to follow Brazilian law, they should just withdraw from the Brazilian market. But they are already changing course.

Maybe they can get that AI generated robot lady with the hand gestures to make Another video.