(Daily Wire) Alliance Defending Freedom on Saturday filed a petition in support of X, formerly known as Twitter after a Brazilian judge ruled the social media platform should be banned in the country.
Last week, Federal Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes ruled that X should be banned in Brazil because the company did not comply with his order to appoint a legal representative for Brazil or suspend a number of accounts. Musk has refused to comply with government demands, promising to protect the free speech of X users. People in Brazil who try to access X through other means, like a VPN, could face daily fines of nearly $9,000.
In response, the Alliance Defending Freedom filed a petition asking the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to intervene on behalf of X as it is blocked. The commission has jurisdiction over Brazil under the American Convention. (Read More)