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[global times reporter li ziyu] a few days after x, a social media platform owned by the famous american entrepreneur musk, was banned by the brazilian government for refusing to comply with the ruling of brazilian supreme court judge de morais, bloomberg and reuters reported on the 21st local time that musk had made concessions and decided to comply with the order of the brazilian supreme court and appoint a new legal representative in brazil for the x platform.

musk (left) and demorais file photo from us media

bloomberg said that a judicial document showed that x platform appointed a new legal representative in brazil on the 20th local time to seek to end the brazilian government's ban on the platform since august 30. reuters said that a lawyer for x platform said on the evening of the 20th local time that the platform had appointed a new legal representative in brazil to meet a key requirement put forward by the brazilian supreme court.

reuters added that the brazilian supreme court asked x platform to submit relevant documents on the 21st to prove its appointment of a new legal representative in brazil. the report said that in the ruling on the 21st, brazilian supreme court judge de morais gave x platform 5 days to provide business registration and other documents to prove that x platform officially appointed the new legal representative in brazil. the report said that x platform's lawyers now said they would comply with the court's requirements in order to be allowed to resume the platform's business in brazil.

according to xinhua news agency, on august 30 this year, the brazilian supreme court ruled to suspend the services of social media platform x in the country because the platform did not designate a legal representative in brazil. brazilian supreme court justice alexandre de morais also required x to pay the outstanding fine. the fine was imposed because x did not comply with court orders and did not delete accounts that were considered to have violated the law and spread false information.

according to a reuters report on september 13, de morais recently issued an order to confiscate the funds of the social media platform "x" owned or controlled by musk and the brazilian branch of the satellite broadband network service provider "starlink", totaling 18.35 million reais (about 24 million yuan) to pay in full the fines for non-compliance with the court order. after the confiscation of the above funds, the bank accounts of the two companies have been unblocked. however, despite the payment of the fine, the x platform is still banned in brazil.