The blocking of social media platform X in Brazil divided users and politicians over the legitimacy of the ban.
divided users and politicians over the legitimacy of the ban, and many Brazilians have had difficulty and doubts over navigating other social media in its absence.platform started early today, making it largely inaccessible on both the web and through mobile apps after the billionaire refused to name a legal representative to the country, missing a deadline imposed by Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes.The shutdown of Elon Musk's platform started early today. Musk pictured in 2020.
The company said on Friday it has seen about 200,000 new users from Brazil sign up during that time, and the number "continues to grow by the minute."Previous users of other platforms welcomed Brazilians to their ranks. Last week, for instance, Brazilians collaboratively crafted an absurd storyline for a fictional telenovela, complete with a theme song created using artificial intelligence tools."Wait a lot of my fan pages are Brazilian!!! Come back hold up!!," Cardi B said Friday on X.A fan page dedicated to Timothée Chalamet, known by the handle TimotheeUpdates, said it would temporarily cease updating as all of its administrators are Brazilian.
The Brazilian Bar Association said on Friday in a statement that it would request the Supreme Court review the fines imposed on all citizens using VPNs or other means to access X without due process. "Tyrants want to turn Brazil into another commie dictatorship but we won't back down. I repeat: do not vote on those who don't respect free speech. Orwell was right," right-wing congressman Nikolas Ferreira, one of former President Jair Bolsonaro's closest allies, published before X went off.Ferreira is a 28-year-old YouTuber who received the most votes of the 513 elected federal lawmakers in the 2022 election.
"We need to leave this state of apathy and stop the worst from happening," the pro-Bolsonaro lawmaker, whose profiles were temporarily blocked by de Moraes in 2022, also said.
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