AX (formerly Twitter) has appointed lawyer Raquel de Oliveira as the social network’s new legal representative in Brazil, after the Supreme Federal Court (STF) gave the company 24 hours to do so.
AX (formerly Twitter) has appointed lawyer Raquel de Oliveira as the social network’s new legal representative in Brazil, after the Supreme Federal Court (STF) gave the company 24 hours to do so.
According to CNN Brasil, the social network confirmed that it had notified the STF of its new legal representative on Friday.
On Thursday, STF judge Alexandre de Moraes had given X until 9:29 p.m. on Friday (1:29 a.m. today in Lisbon) to announce the appointment.
This is one of the requirements demanded by the judge for the social network owned by businessman Elon Musk to operate again in Brazil.
AX has been blocked in Brazil by court order since August 30 because it refused to comply with court orders to remove profiles of people investigated for transmitting anti-democratic messages from the social network and did not pay fines imposed by the courts.
However, on Wednesday the social network became accessible again to Brazilian users after the migration of some of its servers that were not blocked.
In response, Alexandre de Moraes fined X five million reais (824 thousand euros) per day for violating the blockade.
The National Telecommunications Agency (Anatel), which regulates the telecommunications sector in the South American giant, said in a statement that the social network acted deliberately.
“With the active support of telecommunications providers and the company Cloudfare, it was possible to identify [um] mechanism that, it is hoped, will guarantee compliance with the determination, with the reestablishment of the blockade,” reads the Anatel statement.
“Red X’s conduct demonstrates a deliberate intention to ignore the STF’s order. Any further attempt to circumvent the block will require the Agency to take appropriate measures,” the regulatory body added.
The social network has confirmed that the access of some users in Brazil, despite the court-ordered block, was due to involuntary technical problems and was temporary.
The server change “caused an involuntary and temporary restoration of service for Brazilian users,” X said in a statement Wednesday.
On Friday afternoon, the social network once again made access inaccessible in Brazil.
“Shortly before 4:00 p.m. (8:00 p.m. in Lisbon), X stopped using the service” of Cloudflare, which had allowed him to circumvent the blocking order, said the advisor of the Brazilian Association of Internet and Telecommunications Providers (Abrint), Basílio Rodríguez Pérez.
At the end of August, Moraes also imposed a fine of eight thousand euros on anyone who uses a VPN or other location-hiding service to access the social network, which has around 20 million users in the country.
However, to date there have been no reports of fines being imposed on X users in Brazil.
Source: Observadora
