Brazil officially bans X over a legal dispute and imposes fines on users using VPNs

what the hell is United Statian? you seem to be speaking nonsense. you know it's the United states.

spoiled billionaire How is Elon musk Spoiled? Are you angry because you are not rich yourself? imperialist interference in another country How is Elon musk an imperialist to brazil?

imperialism /ɪmˈpɪərɪəlɪz(ə)m/ noun noun: imperialism a policy of extending a country's power and influence through colonization, use of military force, or other means.

You say all sorts of crazy things about Elon Musk like Elon Musk needs to be placed under a guardianship to prevent him from taking such deplorable actions. There is a lot of money and a lot of power in the hands of a psychologically unbalanced, drug-using person like him.

But How do you know Elon Musk is a drug-using person? and He's a Grown adult Are you discriminating against him using Drugs? He's not a Minor He's a grown man. and you seem crazy to be so hustle and offensive to him and I don't like Elon musk but what you said has nothing to do with Brazil.

Thanks for the insights mate! Sometimes it is very practical to have the questions one is being bugged about in a post by someone, with few but really relevant details. I was wondering - what happens if you're a tourist and use a VPN, though? Quite curious about this one...

If I were in Brazil I would use Tails OS or Whonix to access Twitter and do what I please. you don't have to like Elon Musk I don't either but thank you for being honest about Brazil and staying on topic. I didn't even know about the dictatorial censorship of the supreme court of the Brazilian judiciary. This is why I am not going to Russia or china Even Brazil I wouldn't even go to Mexico since the Mexican cartel and nowhere is safe even Going to Iran is dangerous But Japan south Korea European countries and the Philippines are safe countries.

Thank you for your attention and the world needs to know what is happening in the dictatorship in Brazil. I don't like Elon Musk either, especially projects like Neuralink and others that make me very suspicious of him. If you're not a Brazilian citizen, I imagine you won't have a problem... The decision by the dictator of the Brazilian judiciary in the STF, Minister Alexandre de Moraes, was so absurd that after much negative repercussion he was forced to backtrack on the ban on VPNs in stores, but the exorbitant fine remains for those who use X with VPN. Even some newspapers in the mainstream Brazilian media are already criticizing the minister for disrespecting the laws of the Brazilian constitution and not following the rules of due process. Chris Pavlovski chose to leave Brazil with Rumble so as not to comply with this supreme court justice's illegal censorship orders and even Telegram has been targeted by him in the past. The only good thing about all this is that many people are discovering how good it is to use VPNs and decentralized social networks like Nostr and Mastodon. Journalists Glenn Greenwald, Michael Shellenberger and others have criticized the dictatorship of the Brazilian judiciary in a series of international reports on the subject.

“Lawyer Adriano Soares da Costa said that, through a monocratic decision, Moraes established a legal instrument similar to a Provisional Measure, “which conveys a general and abstract norm for all Brazilians, replacing the National Congress and the STF Collegiate, without a process or a rite. An act of absolute and supreme power by a STF minister,” he said. According to the jurist, the decision, which has general and abstract effects, as if it were a law, affects those who are not being investigated, those who will never be summoned by it, in other words, “it is an unprecedented legal aberration”. In addition to assessing that this is “a usurpation of the competence of the National Congress”, the decision constitutes an “unimaginable innovation in the legal system, with no support in the Constitution”. The jurist equates Moraes' act to an institutional act of the military regime because it is based solely on the will of the minister and the power of his office.

Alexander Coelho, a partner at Godke Advogados and a specialist in Digital Law and Data Protection, believes that, from a technical and legal point of view, Moraes' decision raises significant questions. According to Coelho, the Brazilian Civil Rights Framework for the Internet requires that the blocking of social media accounts takes place on the basis of a specific court order and after due legal process, guaranteeing the rights of defense.

In this sense, Adriano Soares da Costa notes that the suspension of social media profiles is “an extreme measure that requires compliance with the Constitution and the Civil Rights Framework for the Internet”. He points out that the Civil Rights Framework for the Internet establishes the need for due process of law to be applied, the initial indication of links with illegal posts, the right to an adversarial hearing and a full defense for those whose accounts and publications are to be suspended or blocked. It would be virtually impossible to do this for all Brazilian X users with current technology.”

I'll be honest, social media as a whole is in a rather sad state. I heard someone claiming that Instagram does a better job at not amplifying political content, but I am sceptical, and Instagram's a Meta company.

Brazilian authorities have asked the dozen of companies offering VPN in Brazil to log users access to Twitter/X (just as they are required for illegal content), but it seems authorities have already went back on it because there would be too much false positive (and so, a great amount of paperwork). Sure, it must be empowering to think you're above the law when you're the head of a hundreds millions users social network, but and the reality kicks in and you loose about 25 millions users in few days (about 10% of total users), I'm not sure there will be a worse time to beg advertisers to go back. Let's say this story just adds up to the endless Twitter drama.

If the traffic uses the type of gateway and encryption VPNs use it is easy to detect.

I use Mullvad VPN and i pay in Bitcoin.