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Brazil’s National Telecommunications Agency sent orders to service providers to unblock X, ending a five-week ban of the social media company.
The agency known as Anatel, which is like the country’s FCC, issued the directive today and indicated that each internet service provider is responsible for taking the measures to implement the order. Anatel said:
The time for the execution of the unblocking will depend on the measures used by the providers, according to their specificities. The temporary suspension of access to X had been determined by the Supreme Court itself in the face of the platform’s refusal to comply with judicial decisions.
The order comes as a result of Brazil’s supreme court saying that X may resume activities for its…