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phoenix technology news, september 1, beijing time,brazilian users have been unable to access x, elon musk's social media platform, since saturday morning local time.previously, brazilian supreme court judge alexandre de moraes ordered the closure of x because musk refused to appoint a legal representative for x in brazil.

brazilian internet providers and mobile phone companies began enforcing morais's ban on saturday morning, and tens of thousands of brazilian users found themselves unable to access x, which has 20 million users in brazil.

when users try to open x on their computers and phones, they get a message saying: "it looks like you've lost your connection. we'll keep trying."

x is no longer accessible in brazil

with x shut down, many brazilians have turned to another social media platform, bluesky, which says it has added 500,000 users in the past two days. "welcome to bluesky!" bluesky posted in portuguese to its new users.

the question now is whether musk will back down.on saturday, he responded on x, blasting judge moraes as a dictator."i keep telling people that this man @alexandre (morais) is the dictator of brazil, not a judge. he is just wearing the cloak of a judge. he has supreme executive, judicial and legislative powers, that is, a dictator. the robe he wears is to deceive western fools into thinking he is a judge," musk said.

musk blasts moraes as a dictator

thaynara oliveira gomes, a brazilian influencer with more than 1 million followers on x, said in a text message: “it’s sad to lose this platform because it was very popular in brazil.”

the move comes as many countries take strong steps to make companies more responsible for their online content.france has just accused telegram ceo pavel durov of enabling criminal activity on his platform, and in brazil, moraes is leading a broad investigation into hate speech and vitriol that he says is endangering democracy.

“this is another chapter in brazil’s efforts to hold tech companies accountable,” said clara iglesias keller, a scholar at the german social science research center in berlin who studies information technology regulation. “but this case has a completely different level of attention.”

however, some people believe that morais' ban is too harsh."this is the most extreme judicial ruling in brazil's 30-year history of internet development."carlos affonso souza, director of the institute of science, technology and society at rio de janeiro state university, said. (author/xiao yu)

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