A group of high-profile free speech advocates including government officials, journalists, and academics have signed a letter to Brazil condemning the government’s censorship of X, formerly Twitter.
Last month, Brazil’s Federal Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes ordered that X be suspended in Brazil after the social media platform resisted demands to censor certain political accounts.
The judge’s decision banned Brazilians from using the social media platform owned by Elon Musk.
X responded to the judge’s decision in a statement, accusing the judge of illegally ordering the social media platform to “censor his political opponents,” including “a duly elected Senator and a 16-year-old girl.”
“Unlike other social media and technology platforms, we will not comply in secret with illegal orders,” X Global Government Affairs said.
Brazilians using a VPN to access X…
