A crusading Brazilian Supreme Court justice included Elon Musk as a target in an ongoing investigation over the dissemination of fake news and opened a separate investigation late Sunday into the executive for alleged obstruction.

In his decision, Justice Alexandre de Moraes noted that Musk on Saturday began waging a public “disinformation campaign” regarding the top court’s actions, and that Musk continued the following day — most notably with comments that his social media company X would cease to comply with the court’s orders to block certain accounts.

“The flagrant conduct of obstruction of Brazilian justice, incitement of crime, the public threat of disobedience of court orders and future lack of cooperation from the platform are facts that disrespect the sovereignty of Brazil,” de Moraes wrote.

  • @tal
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    2 months ago

    most notably with comments that his social media company X would cease to comply with the court’s orders to block certain accounts.

    I mean, he can do that, but the flip side is that that may entail not doing business in Brazil.

    Honestly, I think that it’d make more sense to just block content from being viewed on a per-jurisdiction basis and when someone can’t see content, indicate why they’re blocked, say that their state is mandating it.

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      It’s not about the technicalities of implementing these rulings, it’s about not wanting to do so, specifically because Elon agrees with the far right extremism being censored here.