What an awful day to be Brazilian (X is banned in my country)
Surprised no one’s mentioned X Cancelled yet. For any Brazilians out there that want to keep up with what Toby’s tweeting and can’t/don’t want to download a VPN or Tor:
And to all the non-Brazilians out there asking questions:
Yes, Twitter has been blocked in Brazil. This happened after Musk didn’t appoint a legal representative for the company here in Brazil, which is required by law. This comes after a long feud between Musk and our supreme court after they ordered him to block certain profiles for spreading misinformation.
We can still use a VPN or Tor to access it, though Alexandre de Moraes from the Supreme Court has instated a fine of 50K BRL (about $9K) for those who access Twitter using a VPN (Not that it’s enforceable, anyways. Our country doesn’t even enforce piracy laws.). The OAB (Brazilian Bar Association) has requested that this fine be lifted.
72% of Brazilians oppose the ban, 15% are unsure, and 13% support it.
Today the court upheld the decision, stating that Twitter will only be unbanned after it blocks profiles that allegedly published anti-democratic publications, pays a fine for disobeying court orders and appoints a legal representative in Brazil.
Musk has blocked content at the behest of the Indian and Turkish governments before, stating that he’d follow local laws, and similar to here, the EU also has laws against misinformation and has taken Musk to court, although it looks like they’ll only fine him rather than ban Twitter entirely.
Make of this what you will. I’m against fining VPN users, but I’m generally not opposed to the ban, although I can see the argument that Musk’s punishment should be a fine rather than an outright ban. In other news, Bluesky has gained over one million new users.
Edit: Regarding the VPN fine I found this article stating that:
Moraes had also imposed a daily fine of R$50,000 for anyone using a VPN to access Elon Musk’s social network. On Monday (2/9), Moraes made an adjustment to this point to provide that the fine applies to anyone using a VPN “to defraud a court decision.”
Later they add:
This report was changed at 5:07 p.m. on September 2, 2024 because there is doubt among ministers about the scope of the concept of what exactly would be “frauding a court decision”. Initially, based on information from ministers, there was a perception that fraud would not be committed by anyone who used a VPN to access X, but only by those who posted something that violated what is being investigated in the process. At the end of the day, the information was contested by other members of the court. There are ministers who accompanied Moraes in the trial, however, who do not see the use of a VPN to access X or post memes, for example, as fraud. This is not a consolidated view. The only one who raised this point objectively in the vote was Minister Luiz Fux. In other words, there remains a doubt about what exactly would configure the concept of fraud when using a VPN to access X, which is subject to a daily fine of R$50,000.
It looks like due to the vague language used in the update people still aren’t sure of the exact scope of the fine. At the end of the day I’ll just reiterate that such a fine is not even really enforceable anyways.
You’ll probably see whatever tweets he makes on this sub, and then see people removing words from them a lot.
That’s how I get information from his twitter
Don’t worry, Toby is happy, that you are not able to enter the X
The fuck is X? That shit’s twitter
Elon Musk being a massive dumbass again
Seems like the average Tuesday
that’s why i use nordv- fucking dies
Hey, atleast you have Instagram, YouTube, Snapchat, Facebook, foreign movies, unlike Russia
VPN? Iirc only posting with VPN is banned. And unless you have personal information on your page you won’t be found, since VPN changes connection completely.
I don’t think Toby uses Twitter for Deltarune news anymore. You can sign up for the newsletter if that’s what you’re interested in
You can’t access Twitter and you say this is a bad thing? Based Brazillian government
Do you think Gaster has acess to BlueSky?
Is that supposed to be a bad thing?
Por um lado, que bom que não tem Twitter no Brasil
Por outro lado, n da mais pra ver artistas bons lá
Twitter is banned for more like than two years in my country. Not like we lost something valuable, it wasn’t so popular, but those who used it then and are using it now just downloading VPN
As a brazilian, i am glad that twitter is finally gone from our country.
HOWEVER. Making people not be able to use VPNS to access the website is pretty fucked up.
LIGHT<NER!!! YOU MIGHT NEED A [[This video is sponsored by NordVPN]] TO HAVE A [[Communion]] WITH [[Hyperlink Blocked]]
Good. Xwitter sucks ass anyway, its best if you just don’t use it at all. But if you really want to use it anyway, get a vpn.
It’s a shame dude,i also can’t enter on X
(E sou brasileiro)
Eh, he doesn’t tweet that much anyways. Good for him.