a Brazilian Supreme Court justice has ordered the suspension of Elon musk's social media platform X Nationwide escalating a feud between the two men over freedom of speech far rght accounts and misinformation Justice Alesandra G morise warned musk on Wednesday night that failure to name a local legal representative could mean that his platform was blocked the company hasn't had a representative since earlier this month jodai is basing his decision on local while requiring foreign companies to have a representative in order to receive notification of Court decisions and also to take any requisite legal action gai's Defenders have said that his decisions targeting X have been lawful and that they've served to protect democracy musk on the other hand has characterized yorai as an authoritarian censor and his claims have been Amplified by Brazil's political right Brazil is an important market for X with tens of millions of regular users and also a potentially huge growth market for Elon musk's satellite company starlink and now starlink is also in G mod is's crosshairs it said that this week the judge froze its accounts apparently in an attempt to get it to pay for X's fines