Charles Hoskinson, the founder of the Cardano blockchain, has announced plans to create a decentralised social media platform in Brazil after the country’s Supreme Court banned Elon Musk’s X (formerly Twitter). Hoskinson stated in a post on X, “While Brazil has silenced our brothers and sisters on X, their work will still stand and matter to us all. I cannot wait to recruit many Brazilians to help us build a decentralised social network.”
Brazil, Latin America’s largest nation, has become another battleground in the global debate over online free speech regulation, as X began to go offline over the weekend. The Supreme Court’s suspension order, following Musk’s refusal to appoint a legal representative to deal with the Brazilian government, left many of X’s 20 million users in Brazil without a platform.
Musk responded by reminding users they can still access the platform via X.com, even without the app, and suggesting they download a VPN in case of being blocked. He also posted a series of attacks against Brazil’s Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes, who issued the decision and is leading an investigation into online hate speech.
