x is reportedly changing course after weeks of refusing to comply with conditions set by Brazil's Supreme Court that would allow it to operate in the country again. x-brazil.html” rel=”nofollow noopener” target=”_blank” data-ylk=”slk:The New York Times;elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:1;pos:1;itc:0;sec:content-canvas”>Lawyers for the company said in a court filing on Friday that x had appointed a legal representative in Brazil, as required by Judge Alexandre de Moraes, and deleted accounts the judge had identified as a threat to democracy, in addition to paying fines owed. However, the publication also reports that Brazil’s Supreme Court said x had failed to submit all the necessary documents and now has five days to do so.
The documentation that x did not present is the one that would prove that he formally appointed a legal representative in Brazil, as required by Brazilian law, according to technology/court-gives-5-days-x-validate-its-brazil-legal-representative-2024-09-21/” rel=”nofollow noopener” target=”_blank” data-ylk=”slk:Reuters;elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:2;pos:1;itc:0;sec:content-canvas”>. x named Rachel de Oliveira Conceicao as its new legal representative in Friday’s filing. The company has been working to restore service to users in Brazil after it was blocked in late August and briefly came back online earlier this week using Cloudflare DNS. But it said this was “inadvertent and temporary.” In a statement at the time, “While we expect the platform to be inaccessible again in Brazil soon, we are continuing efforts to work with the Brazilian government to bring it back very soon for the people of Brazil.”
Brazil has to pay almost a million dollars if it does not comply with the ban in the country. Judge Moraes has also ruled that users in Brazil can be fined approximately $8,900 for accessing x. The company's latest measure is a step towards resolving the problem and the possible return of x to Brazil legally.