the Brazilian Supreme Court Judge Alesandra dear has ordered the full and immediate suspension of Elon musk's social media platform X in Brazil but until all related court orders are complied with including the payment of fines in his ruling he condemned the owner of X saying Elon Musk showed his total disrespect for Brazilian sovereignty and in particular for the Judiciary setting himself up as a true supranational entity and immune to the laws of each country the judge on Wednesday said X in Brazil would be suspended if it didn't respect a deadline to appoint a legal representative as required by Brazilian law that deadline was not respected the round between the judge and the tech billionaire has been simmering for months after X failed to comply with legal orders to block certain accounts accused of spreading fake news and hate messages musk responded on his social media platform with a volley of posts saying that among other things free speech is the Bedrock of democracy and an unelected pseudo judge in Brazil is destroying it for political purposes in his post he compares the judge to Lord Voldemort out of the Harry Potter books among those also reacting was the Brazilian president having a lot of money does not allow you to disrespect the Supreme Court the citizen is an American citizen he is not a citizen of the world he can't offend presidents congressmen the senate or the Supreme Court who does he think he is suspension takes place amid a sharp right left political divide supporters of Brazil's former hard right president Sher bolsonaro see musk as an ally in their opposition to investigations into so-called digital militias accused of spreading fake news during bolsonaro's term of office