Brazil threatens daily fines for X and Starlink for ‘non-compliance’ with the ban
One day after X went online to some people in Brazil, the country’s Supreme Court threatens the telecommunications company and Starlink owned by Elon Musk with . In a new order posted online, Supreme Court judge Alexandre de Moraes ordered regulators to “wake up” the ban on X and said the two companies could be fined up to $1 million a day for non-compliance.
Moraes, who has been in public discussions with Musk for months, comes after the X became available again in Brazil to many users on Wednesday. The company said in a previous statement that the change was an “indirect and temporary service restoration” caused by switching network providers.
After Brazil’s ban last month, X has reportedly switched to using Cloudflare’s servers in the region, making it more difficult for Brazilian ISPs to do so. Company has made a change in network providers to “provide service in Latin America” and that it expects its service in Brazil to go online again “soon.”
Now, Moraes says X could be fined the equivalent of $921,000 per day, starting September 19, for each day of “non-compliance” with the ban. Starlink, which saw Brazil suspended amid the dispute, faces “liability” if X doesn’t pay, according to the order. Moraes also ordered the country’s internet regulator to “take immediate steps to prevent access to the platform by blocking the servers of ‘CDN Cloudflare, Fastly and EdgeUno’, and others similar, designed to circumvent the court order that stopped the operation of the old Twitter. in Brazil.”
UX did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
