Due to what it described as “censorship orders” from Brazilian judge Alexandre de Moraes, social media site X said on Saturday that it will “effective immediately” cease operations in Brazil. X excludes from the Brazil According to X, Moraes threatened to surreptitiously arrest one of its Brazilian legal agents if the company disobeyed court orders to remove certain content from its site. A request for comment from the Brazilian Supreme Court, on which Moraes sits, was not immediately answered. Official statement of Elon Musk Brazilian jurist Alexandre de Moraes is a justice of the nation’s Supreme Federal Court as well as the head of the Superior Electoral Court. Brazilians can still access the X service, according to a statement made on Saturday by entrepreneur Elon Musk’s platform. “The decision to close the X office in Brazil was difficult, but, if we had agreed to @alexandre’s (illegal) secret censorship and private information handover demands, there was no way we could explain our actions without feeling ashamed,” wrote Elon Musk.
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