Social media platform X has became available to many users in Brazil on Wednesday as an update to its communications network bypassed a block orders by the country’s Supreme Court.
In August, after a months-long dispute between Elon Musk, the X CEO and Brazilian Justice Alexandre de Moraes, the Supreme Court had directed Brazil’s mobile and internet service providers to impede the platform and its users were cut off within hours.
Currently, Brazilian X users had flooded back onto the platform on Wednesday, with some users praising what they called a maneuver by Musk to flout the law.
X however, had revealed that a switch in network providers had resulted in “an inadvertent and temporary service restoration” for Brazilian users.
X’s Global Affairs team, had in a post made to the social media platform, said the switch had been prompted by the shutdown, as it meant some infrastructure for the rest of Latin America was no longer accessible.
However, it is noteworthy to mention that Brazilians’ access to the platform, will likely be blocked again soon, X added.
The Brazilian Association of Internet and Telecommunications Providers (Abrint) had given an explainer saying that the X update had routed some Brazilian users through third-party cloud services from outside the country, granting them access to the platform even without a virtual private network (VPN).
Anatel, Brazil’s telecommunications regulator, has announced that it is working to notify content delivery network providers and telecom companies to block access to X im Brazil again, though it’s not clear how long it will take for the providers to enact the order.
