Brazilians using a VPN to access the app could be fined $8,874 a day, the Supreme Court has said.
Justice Alexandre de Moraes of the Supreme Court of Brazil has ordered the operations of X (formerly Twitter) to be βimmediately suspendedβ and threatened draconian fines against anyone trying to sidestep the ban.
De Moraes demanded that X censor several accounts that βspread disinformationβ by criticizing him, but the platformβs owner Elon Musk refused.
On Friday, the judge ordered the platform banned in Brazil, giving Google and Apple five days to remove X from their app stores. He also threatened a fine of around 50,000 Brazilian real (approximately $8,874) a day for anyone using a virtual private network (VPN) to get around the ban.
βFree speech is the bedrock of democracy and an unelected pseudo-judge in Brazil is destroying it for political purposes,βΒ Musk said in response to the order.
