Accounts blocked on X have not yet been reactivated

24 hours after the promise made by Elon Musk, owner of “Account held” message. A People’s Gazette carried out a survey of some of the main names whose profiles were censored by order of the minister.

The businessman asked Moraes directly on Saturday (6) why the minister demanded “so much censorship in Brazil” and informed that he would overturn the blocks on accounts on the platform imposed by the judge. Musk also made a post threatening to close the X office in Brazil and promising an end to restrictions imposed by higher courts on profiles on the social network.

“We are removing all restrictions. This judge imposed heavy 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. But principles are more important than profit,” he said.

On Sunday night (7), Moraes issued a decision including Musk as being investigated in the “digital militias” inquiry and established a fine of R$100,000 per profile for each judicially blocked profile that is reactivated.

Twitter Files

The disclosure of internal X documents, known as “Twitter Files”, indicating abusive content moderation, resurfaced last Wednesday (3), when North American journalist Michael Shellenberger revealed the Brazilian version of the episode, adding criticism to Moraes. The so-called “Twitter Files Brazil” is made up of prints of emails said to be from a former Twitter executive, in which he allegedly criticized requests for access to the platform’s user data by the Judiciary, contradicting the platform’s policy and the company itself. Brazilian legislation.

The Attorney General of the Union (AGU), Jorge Messias, used the platform on Saturday night (6) to demand “urgent regulation” of social networks. “We cannot live in a society in which billionaires domiciled abroad have control of social networks and put themselves in a position to violate the rule of law,” he posted.

On the other hand, a series of political leaders publicly spoke out in favor of the statements made by the owner of X, in favor of freedom of expression. Federal deputy and columnist for Gazeta do Povo Marcel van Hattem (Novo-RS) is among the most active parliamentarians on social media after Musk’s announcement. He published a series of messages and republished the video of journalist Michael Shellenberger, stating that “Brazil is on the brink of dictatorship” and that “Lula is participating in this drive towards totalitarianism”.

Anatel waiting for request to take X off the air

According to information gathered by the UOL portal, emissaries from the Superior Electoral Court (TE) sought, this Sunday morning (7), the president of the National Telecommunications Agency (Anatel), Carlos Baigorri, in search of information on what procedures would be necessary to take X off the air in the country.

On behalf of the President of the Court, Alexandre de Moraes, they would have heard that Baigorri would call the main telephone operators to be on standby to immediately execute a possible court order in this regard. For Elon Musk’s platform to go offline, operators must receive a court order.