Re:Brazilian court orders suspension of X
by bubblesnort on Friday August 30, 2024 @04:59PM
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They can't. I can easily use a Brazil endpoint to establish a tunnel elsewhere and browse X, formerly Twitter. I suppose they could try fining the VPN service provider. (But even then they won't be able to prove what's going on.)
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Re:Brazilian court orders suspension of X
by declan_roberts on Friday August 30, 2024 @05:08PM
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What if you're a public figure, maybe one critical of the government and you're still tweeting while in Brazil?
Seems pretty easy to enforce to me regardless of the technical ways people circumvent it.
It would be amusing if the government tried to introduce that as evidence and then got countersued for having used X themselves.
I know, I know. There is probably some exemption for law enforcement. Or if that was overlooked, there will be soon.
But it was still an amusing thought.
The logical next step would be putting you under investigation for using a VPN “because only criminals need privacy”
Re:Brazilian court orders suspension of X
by declan_roberts on Friday August 30, 2024 @05:09PM
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Getting really close to that
Re:Brazilian court orders suspension of X
by artificialprint on Friday August 30, 2024 @05:08PM
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Can't you just ban public VPN services in the country?
China has nailed it.