[Music] social media platform X is about to be shut down in Brazil if the country's Supreme Court follows through on its threat this after Elon Musk and Brazil's top judge Alexandre de morai have been battling for weeks over social media regulations and censorship in a post X's Global government Affairs account posted that the company expects judge day Moray to shut down the social media site in Brazil simply because we would not comply with his illegal orders to censor his political opponents the company said when we attempted to defend ourselves in court judge day Moray threatened our Brazilian legal representative with imprisonment even after she resigned he Froze all of her bank accounts musk went after day maray on X Thursday evening calling the judge an evil dictator cosplaying as a judge under Brazil law social media platforms and foreign companies must have a representative in order to operate in the country right now X does not have one because when judge day Moray threatened to jail X's representative musk removed all employees from Brazil the Brazilian Supreme Court announced Wednesday it was giving the social media platform 24 hours to find a representative in Brazil or face penalty of suspension the conflict between musk and judge day Moray began when day Moray LED investigations of what he calls digital militias which are accused of spreading disinformation the probes led to account suspensions of high-profile individuals in the country musk then announced those accounts would be reactivated leading to a criminal inquiry against the tech Mogul judge day Moray also froze starlinks finances to prevent another one of musk companies from doing business in Latin America's largest country in response musk posted many remote schools and hospitals depend on spacex's starlink SpaceX will provide internet service to users in Brazil for free and until this matter is resolved as we cannot receive payment but don't want to cut anyone off for Straight Arrow news I'm Lauren Taylor for more stories just like this one download the straight Aro News app [Music]