Brazil Supreme Court panel unanimously upholds judge’s decision to block X nationwide
A Brazilian Supreme Court panel has unanimously upheld the decision of one of its justices to block billionaire Elon Musk’s social media platform X nationwide
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DAVID BILLER and GABRIELA SÁ PESSOA Associated Press
September 2, 2024, 11:35 AM ET
International headlines from ABC NewsCatch up on the developing stories from around the globe making headlines.The Associated Press
RIO DE JANEIRO — A Brazilian Supreme Court panel on Monday unanimously upheld the decision of one of its justices to block billionaire Elon Musk’s social media platform X nationwide, according to the court’s website.
The broader support among justices undermines the effort by Musk and his supporters to cast Justice Alexandre de Moraes as an authoritarian renegade who is intent on censoring political speech in Brazil.
The panel that voted in a virtual session was comprised of five of the full bench’s 11 justices, including de Moraes, who last Friday ordered the platform blocked for refusing to name a local legal representative, as required by law. It will stay suspended until it complies with his orders and pays outstanding fines that as of last week exceeded $3 million, according to his decision.
The platform has clashed with de Moraes over its reluctance to block users, and has alleged that de Moraes wants an in-country legal representative so that Brazilian authorities can exert leverage over the company by having someone to arrest.
De Moraes also set a daily fine of 50,000 reais ($8,900) for people or companies using virtual private networks, or VPNs, to access X. Some legal experts questioned the grounds for that decision and how it would be enforced, including Brazil’s bar association, which said it would request the Supreme Court review that provision.
But the majority of the panel upheld the VPN fine — with one justice opposing unless users are shown to be using X to commit crimes.
Brazil is one of the biggest markets for X, with tens of millions of users. Its block marked a dramatic escalation in a monthslong feud between Musk and de Moraes over free speech, far-right accounts and misinformation.
Over the weekend, many X users in Brazil said they felt disconnected from the world and began migrating en masse to alternative platforms, like Bluesky and Threads.
The suspension has also proceeded to set up a showdown between de Moraes and Musk’s satellite internet provider Starlink, which is refusing to enforce the justice’s decision.
“He violated the constitution of Brazil repeatedly and egregiously, after swearing an oath to protect it,” Musk wrote in the hours before the vote, adding a flurry of insults and accusations in the wake of the panel’s vote. On Sunday, Musk announced the creation of an X account to publish the justice’s sealed decisions that he said would show they violated Brazilian law.
But legal experts have said such claims don’t hold water, noting in particular that de Moraes’ peers have repeatedly endorsed his rulings — as they did on Monday. Although his actions are viewed by experts as legal, they have sparked some debate over whether one man has been afforded too much power, or if his rulings should have more transparency.
De Moraes’ decision to quickly refer his order for panel approval served to obtain “collective, more institutional support that attempts to depersonalize the decision,” Conrado Hübner, a constitutional law expert at the University of Sao Paulo, told The Associated Press.
It is standard for a justice to refer such cases to a five-justice panel, Hübner said. In exceptional cases, the justice also could refer the case to the full bench for review. Had de Moraes done the latter, two justices who have questioned his decisions in the past — and were appointed by former right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro — would have had the opportunity to object or hinder the vote’s advance.
X’s block already led de Moraes last week to freeze the Brazilian financial assets of Starlink as a means to force it to cover X’s fines, reasoning that the two companies are part of the same economic group. The company says it has more than 250,000 clients in Brazil.
Legal experts have questioned the legal basis of that move, and Starlink’s law firm Veirano has told the AP it has appealed the freeze. It declined to comment further.
In a show of defiance, Starlink informally told the telecommunications regulator Anatel that it will not block X access until its financial accounts are unfrozen, Anatel’s press office said in an email to the AP. Starlink didn’t respond to a request for comment.
“If I’m not mistaken, it was a WhatsApp message that the legal representative of Starlink sent to the president of Anatel, forwarding a message from the company in the United States,” said Arthur Coimbra, a board member of Anatel, on a video call from his office in Brasilia.
That communication doesn’t hold legal value as conclusive evidence of non-compliance but prompted the telecommunications regulator to conduct inspections on Monday.
Coimbra said Anatel would finish an inspection report by the end of the day and then send it to the Supreme Court. He added that the maximum sanction for a telecom company would be revocation of its license. If Starlink loses its license and continues providing service, it would be committing a crime. Anatel could seize equipment from Starlink’s ground stations in Brazil that ensure the quality of its internet service, he said.
The ground stations receive and transmit data between satellites and the Earth. When a user accesses the internet via satellite, the data request is sent to the satellite, which then forwards it to the ground station connected to the global internet network.
That means a shutdown of Starlink is likely, although enforcement will be difficult given the company’s satellites aren’t inside national territory, said Luca Belli, coordinator of the Technology and Society Center at the Getulio Vargas Foundation. It is popular in Brazil’s expansive rural and forested areas.
Anatel’s President Carlos Baigorri told local media GloboNews late Sunday afternoon that he has relayed Starlink’s decision to Justice de Moraes.
“It is highly probable there is a political escalation,” because Starlink is “explicitly refusing to comply with orders, national laws,” said Belli, who is also a professor at the Getulio Vargas Foundation’s law school.
The arguments from Musk, a self-proclaimed “free-speech absolutist,” have found fertile ground with Brazil’s political right, who view de Moraes’ actions as political persecution against Bolsonaro’s supporters.
On Brazilian orders, X previously has shut down accounts including of lawmakers affiliated with Bolsonaro’s right-wing party and far-right activists accused of undermining Brazilian democracy. X’s lawyers in April sent a document to the Supreme Court, saying that since 2019 it had suspended or blocked 226 users.
Bolsonaro and his allies have cheered on Musk for defying de Moraes. Supporters rallied in April along Rio de Janeiro’s Copacabana beach with a giant sign reading “Brazil Thanks Elon Musk.”
Earlier that month, de Moraes ordered an investigation into Musk over the dissemination of defamatory fake news and another probe over possible obstruction, incitement and criminal organization.
Bolsonaro is also the target of a de Moraes probe over whether the former president had a role in inciting an attempted coup to overturn the results of the 2022 election that he lost.
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Sá Pessoa reported from Sao Paulo.
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Read Satanassi but here I give you a gem, a short: https://x.Com/brotto_marco/status/1825610627525783850
Relativism i.e. “no limits” produces these results i.e. from the execution of Satan’s greatest desire, to destroy Man as the greatest creation of God, the most illustrious Satanist of the century A. Crowley explains it admirably: https://x.Com/brotto_marco/status/1820011972693225844
If this girl wants to be a perfect Relativist, she shouldn’t stop but continue “without limits” to change, whatever the cost, she would be consistent while Satan laughs while witnessing the destruction…. DO YOU UNDERSTAND WELL WHAT THIS SATANIST IS SAYING👇♦️«Life is as ugly and necessary as the female body. Death is as beautiful and necessary as the male body». ♦️https://x.Com/brotto_marco/status/1830894793804730571 EUROPEAN LEADERS ARE ALL SATANIST IN OCCULT BY Marco Brotto (❤️Italy and USA by J.F.Kennedy) The female, for the diabolical, is as ugly as existence, the man is beautiful but must be associated with its termination. You understand: the human being must be fought, degraded.
Made ill and killed.
Now you understand why the Seine full of shit had to “kill Apollo”, read the post below. WHAT IS THE REAL REASON WHY THEY MADE THE OLYMPIANS SWIM IN THE SHIT OF THE SEINE❓
BECAUSE THEY WANTED TO HUMILIATE “APOLLO” AND CELEBRATE DIONYSUS-SHIVA.♦️After the shit of the opening ceremony, with apocalyptic transsexuality, and after the joys of boxing, where the “LGBT who beat women” level was unlocked SEE: https://x.Com/brotto_marco/status/1819754835635237302, the Olympics gave us this pearl
TO MAKE THE TRIATHLETES SWIM IN THE SHIT OF THE SEINE♦️
WHY❓https://x.Com/brotto_marco/status/1830894793804730571 EUROPEAN LEADERS ARE ALL SATANIST IN OCCULT BY Marco Brotto (❤️Italy and USA by J.F.Kennedy) “I vomited 10 times”: the story of the triathlete after the race in the Seine at Olympics» «Paris Games: Polluted Seine devastates triathletes, vomiting and illnesses. Doctors’ alarm» «Paris 2024, an athlete after swimming in the Seine: “I saw things…”».
LITERALLY EVERYONE KNOWS THAT LIKE EVERY RIVER THAT PASSES THROUGH A CITY OF 10 MILLION INHABITANTS, IT CANNOT BUT BE “UNSWIMABLE”‼️
SO WHY❓ The choice was forced. It had to be done in the Seine, despite the protests, the horrifying tests for E. Coli – that is, E. AAAAAAAsSSSSs. 0 0 - APAllah pedo love DEM lgbt Hold on, this is waiting to be approved by World Israel News.https://x.Com/brotto_marco/status/1830894793804730571 EUROPEAN LEADERS ARE ALL SATANIST IN OCCULT BY Marco Brotto (❤️Italy and USA by J.F.Kennedy) Mayor Hidalgo had swam in the brown waters a few days earlier to show that everything was fine. They insisted. They got what they wanted. THEY WANTED TO IMMERS THE APOLLIAN BODIES of the athletes in shit AT ALL COSTS. Make them suffer, humiliate them, degrade them.Olympic athletes represent the perfection of the body, the healthy organism, the Apollonian ideal of human biology. Ask Leni Riefenstahl https://youtu.Be/zHN8Jwku1Nc.Swimmers even more so: it is the sport where the muscles become even more symmetrical, the shoulders broad (with the explosion of muscles not developed by other disciplines, such as the teres maior, the fins between the armpits and the arms), the sculpted abs, the fat mass that reaches the lowest levels among sports: it is no coincidence that once all the Tarzans, all the actors of the old cinema, from Johnny Weissmuller (1904-1984) to Carlo Pedersoli (1929-2016) known as Bud Spencer, were Olympic swimmers.
Swimmers are beautiful.That someone, therefore, wanted to besmirch this beauty❓
That they wanted to throw this river of SSSSSSSSSHHIT (literally) against someone as beautiful as Apollo❓
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The initial pagan rites crown the god of this Olympics: it is Dionysus, who appeared in a blasphemous Last Supper with bodies deformed by fatness and transsexualism, the Dionysus-Shiva, Dionysus-Smurf, deformed, slovenly, debauched who transforms everything he touches into depraved sSSSHHHhit. 0 0 - https://worldisraelnews.com/watch-civil-rights-attorney-slams-biden-harris-admin-for-failing-to-protect-jews/
- APAllah pedo love DEM lgbt Hold on, this is waiting to be approved by World Israel News.https://x.Com/brotto_marco/status/1830894793804730571 EUROPEAN LEADERS ARE ALL SATANIST IN OCCULT BY Marco Brotto (❤️Italy and USA by J.F.Kennedy) Mayor Hidalgo had swam in the brown waters a few days earlier to show that everything was fine. They insisted. They got what they wanted. And Dionysus is not an Apollonian god, he is not even an Olympian god: he is a chthonic god, a nocturnal, subterranean god. The god of the Bacchae: in Euripides’ tragedy, the god who disrupts society to the point of violently destroying the family (women become hallucinated and bloodthirsty monsters), to the point of regicide – which is something we saw a few weeks ago: a king, a true sovereign loved by the people of the whole world, who is missed by a hair’s breadth, and the rainbow Dionysians who are sorry about it.
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And so, in the Dionysian Olympics (contradictio in adjecto) the swimming Apollo must be humiliated.
He must be filled with shit.
No sooner said than done: hundreds of beautiful bodies sculpted by passion and self-sacrifice (not exactly the faculty of those who preach pride) immersed in a river of excrement. And keep quiet, because if you speak, Escherichia coli will get inside you. And maybe not just that.
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Because if it is true that at this moment the Social Kingdom of Satan seems to be taking to get angry with women – we’ll talk about trans-boxing tomorrow – it’s also true that Evil cannot truly love men.
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Aleister Crowley, father of modern Satanism, said suggestively in his Book of Lies (1913): “Life is as ugly and necessary as the female body. Death is as beautiful and necessary as the male body.”
For the diabolical, the female is as ugly as existence, the man is beautiful but must be associated with its termination. You understand: the human being must be fought, degraded. Made sick. Contamination, some will remember, is also a watchword of that group, which speaks of it as an artistic, social, but also epidemiological fact: you will remember that there are communities, behind the black rainbow, that want to give and even receive terrible viruses.But how did the athletes accept it? Many are asking themselves this.
We don’t know. Out of inertia. Out of conformity.
We don’t know, after all, how many of them at the time injected themselves with alien messenger RNA, never mind fecal bacteria, just to stay on the track. 0 0 - Allah pedo love DEM lgbt3 minutes agohttps://x.Com/brotto_marco/status/1830894793804730571 EUROPEAN LEADERS ARE ALL SATANIST IN OCCULT BY Marco Brotto (❤️Italy and USA by J.F.Kennedy) Maybe, but the spectacle of these Games is really increasingly grotesque, revealing. Maybe it’s right that it should be this way. Sun Tzu in the sixth chapter of his Art of War says that we must force the enemy to reveal himself: here there is no need to force, because among the many diseases that we have before us there is certainly that of exhibitionism, of ugly and sick narcissism, as they have shown us with great pleasure.These are the Olympics of Macron who as a boy was surrounded by the disgrace who now calls herself Brigitte
https://x.Com/brotto_marco/status/1738657978012532931, passed through the hands of Attali, etc. etc. a completely devastated subject that the real Power uses to disintegrate Society and channel it towards Weimar, towards the “Abomination of Desolation”. 0 0Reply - Allah pedo love DEM lgbt10 minutes agoyou? love Big 666 phama again!!! https://x.Com/11Giuliano/status/1830601893007274038 Another doctor: Quartù, a retired doctor from Quartu collapses on the beach and dies: tragedy in Colostrai. The victim, Gian Gabriele Sorano, was 68 years old: attempts at resuscitation were useless.
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Altro medico: Quartù,medico quartese in pensione si accascia in spiaggia e muore: dramma a Colostrai. La vittima, Gian Gabriele Sorano, aveva 68 anni: inutili i tentativi di rianimazione.
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