One day after threatening to defy the nation's regulator, Elon Musk's satellite broadband company, Starlink, announced on Tuesday that it was following the Brazilian Supreme Court's order to restrict access to social media platform X in the nation.

Since Supreme Court judge Alexandre de Moraes ordered the freezing of Starlink's accounts for potential use as a means of paying fines owed by X, which is also owned by Musk, the firm has become a new flashpoint in the conflict between Musk and Brazil.

Moraes ordered all internet providers to ban domestic access to X, but the Musk-backed company Starlink refused to comply, according to a statement made by Brazil's telecom regulator Anatel on Monday. However, Starlink had retreated and assured the regulator on Tuesday that it would end the blocking within hours, an Anatel representative told Reuters. Anatel confirmed that Starlink has begun blocking access to X in Brazil.

Because Moraes ordered all telecom providers in the nation to shut down the social networking platform because it lacked a local legal presence, X has been blocked in Brazil since last week. A panel of Supreme Court justices later upheld this judgment.

Starlink stated in its post that it has filed a lawsuit in the Brazilian Supreme Court, citing the "gross illegality" of Moraes' ruling, which ordered Starlink's finances to be frozen and barred it from carrying out financial operations in Brazil.

Along with others who concur that the judge's latest decisions are against the Brazilian constitution, it further stated that it will keep pursuing all available legal options. According to a court document on Tuesday, Starlink missed the deadline to file a fresh appeal against the order to freeze its accounts. It was not immediately apparent which legal tool the company would employ to ask for the freezing to be lifted.

The Moraes ruling from earlier this year, which mandated that the platform ban accounts connected to investigations into the purported dissemination of hate speech and skewed news, is the source of the X dispute. Musk referred to the directive as censorship. In response, he closed the business's headquarters in Brazil in the middle of August, although the platform remained accessible there until Moraes closed it. Through VPNs and other methods, some Brazilians can still use the service.