The involved judge is corrupt AF:
From the NYT
To run the investigation, Mr. Toffoli tapped Mr. Moraes, 53, an intense former federal justice minister and constitutional law professor who had joined the court in 2017.
In his first action, Mr. Moraes ordered a Brazilian magazine, Crusoé, to remove an online article that showed links between Mr. Toffoli and a corruption investigation. Mr. Moraes called it “fake news.”
Mr. Moraes later lifted the order after legal documents proved the article was accurate.
Just labels things arbitrarily fake news as quid pro quo for his promotion and removes them on a whim.
Not to mention, in an earlier version of the order, he ordered the local legal representatives of Apple and Google to remove all VPN apps from the App Store and the Play Store.
The fine for drunk driving in Brazil is $500, but it’s $9000 if you happen to accidentally click on an X link or being redirected to it while using a VPN. And Twitter links are everywhere on web pages.
A different company owned by the same asshole
Why should Elon be able to just dodge sanctions?
Ah yes, because if the owner of Twitter is a problem, the owner of Starlink surely won’t be. /s
Who owns X and Starlink/SpaceX?
Both are private companies owned by Musk. Fair game imo
AFAIK Starlink was providing direct access to the X despite sanctions. So there is definitely reason why.
Reddit jacking over this because they don’t like Elon is insane. I hate this place and most people on it. Complete brain rot, just the “alt” of the left.
Yeah but in this case it’s kind of fun to watch the corruption just fight each itself.
Most users will not bother. X will lose critical mass in Brazil and that is all that matters. If the ISPs all block X and regular folks run the risk of a big fine, they will not login to X. And it will give the authorities one more charge to go after the far right folks trying to tear down their democracy.
Oh dang, my laptop’s out of battery. Let me just plug it in to the power strip that’s next to this water fountain.
Your first statement resonates with me been in Youtube and can’t relate with comment is trash/bad stuff you really need to look for it. Same with X I only see things in my that I like its not like porn stuff will just pop out of nowhere(unless if I start looking for it)
Yup. Twitter to me is a pretty nice place to be because I actually follow people who I like/know and are in the same fandoms/cliques as me. If you avoid the stupid political accounts it’s fine.
I have a carefully curated art feed. My secret to only having art? Every time I follow somebody, I click “Don’t show retweets” on their profile. Bam. I literally only get the art they post. It’s wonderful.
OK. Sure. I’m on pro wrestling twitter a ton, and there is way way too much far right stuff.
Far more than years past. Black wrestlers constantly being called everything sort of and sometimes the n word. Gay wrestlers being berated and told to kill themselves. Anyone in the sphere having anything left of a center right opinion on anything being shouted down as a commie.
Maybe your block game is on point or you just stick to the most milk toast accounts, but shit’s wildly different over the past couple of years.
this is reddit…it’s turned into a politcal shitting ground on anything trump/right/elon. You can’t even go into some subs without seeing propaganda, it’s sad…i don’t remember reddit being this bad.
The kind of stuff I see I am NOT looking for
It’s crazy the amount of people who will campaign against governments like Russia for corruption and censorship, yet are supporting Brazil doing this. It’s no fucking different, yet apparently this is ok
How can you even prove someone used a VPN? The good ones don’t log… And most people will jump to the good ones (that they likely already had).
This is incredibly dumb.