Elon Musk didn’t mince words on Monday, writing on his X platform that Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes should be arrested.
“De Moraes deserves prison for his crimes,” the tech billionaire wrote on X on Sept. 2 after the country’s high court upheld a ban on the social media platform.
The temporary ban was imposed over the weekend after Musk didn’t name a legal representative before a deadline in a case going back months in which the country demanded some accounts be suspended that had been implicated in probes of so-called digital militias accused of spreading misinformation and hate.
Following De Moraes’ Friday decision, a court panel voted unanimously to uphold the ruling on Monday.
Musk has attacked De Moraes multiple times from his X account, saying that “he should be impeached for violating his oath of office” and it’s “only a matter of time before this criminal is behind bars,” and calling him a “dictator.”
He previously wrote: “X is the most used news source in Brazil. It is what the people want. Now, the tyrant de Voldemort is crushing the people’s right to free speech.”
