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It is highly probable there is a political escalation" because Starlink is "explicitly refusing to comply with orders, national laws,
said Belli, who is also a professor at the Getulio Vargas Foundation's law school Musk creates profile on X against Moraes to leak confidential decisions of the Supreme Court,
The sign reads in Portuguese ... referring to Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes who ordered the platform blocked for having failed to name a local legal representative as required by law It is not possible for a company to operate in the territory of a country and intend to impose its vision on which rules should be valid or applied,
Justice Flavio Dino said as he joined Justice Cristiano Zanin in siding with Moraes The repeated noncompliance with supreme court decisions is extremely serious for any citizen or legal entity, be they public or private. No one can seek to perform their activities in Brazil without complying with the laws and the federal constitution,
The current Brazilian administration likes to wear the cloak of a free democracy, while crushing the people under its boot,
tweeted Musk, who visited Bolsonaro in Brazil during the final year of his 2019-2023 presidency and received a military decoration for distinguished services to the country It’s simply about following the rules … nobody is above the law,
vice-president Geraldo Alckmin told the Folha de São Paulo newspaper Economic power and the size of one’s bank account do not produce some strange immunity from jurisdiction,
Dino argued, warning of the risks of “private autocrats” being allowed to lay down the laws of social networks He can block this platform in Brazil, but he can’t stop the whole world from knowing his illegal, shameful & hypocritical deeds,
Musk tweeted on Saturday as the ban came into force and millions of Brazilians found themselves shut out of X, formerly known as Twitter As regards the U.S., it's not impossible that one state could attempt to criminalize offering a service to another state. This is already happening with porn sites facing bans in some states (which may or may not be upheld by the courts),
TJ McIntyre, associate professor at the Sutherland School of Law, University College Dublin, Ireland, told Newsweek However these [bans] tend to be enforced by the sites themselves geolocating users and refusing access to users in those states. Requiring ISPs (internet service providers) to block access to sites is very difficult under the First Amendment, and it is unlikely that a court would make such an order in the U.S. against a general social media site such as Twitter (X),
While the reporting requirement does appear to place a substantial compliance burden on social media companies, it does not appear that the requirement is unjustified or unduly burdensome within the context of First Amendment law."
U.S. District Judge William Shubb dismissed X's request to block the law, writing He violated the constitution of Brazil repeatedly and egregiously, after swearing an oath to protect it,
Musk wrote of de Moraes in the hours before the vote Karma's a b*tch bro."
Musk shared the posts and criticized de Moraes, adding Let's wait and see if they formalize this in the records,
I don't really think that it even existed,
Unless the Brazilian government returns the illegally seized property of X and SpaceX, we will seek reciprocal seizure of government assets too,
Musk wrote Monday, including a link to a CNN report about the US seizure of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro's airplane Hope Lula enjoys flying commercial,
Musk added, an apparent threat to Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva Extremists groups and digital militias,
A company that refuses to name a legal representative in Brazil cannot operate in Brazilian territory,
Barroso said in an interview with newspaper Folha de S.Paulo published on Sunday This is yet another chapter to hold technology companies accountable in the country,
said Clara Iglesias Keller, a researcher at the WZB Berlin Social Sciences Center who studies information technology regulation