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Brazilian court orders suspension of X

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Re: Brazilian court orders suspension of X

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Post by virgulino »

"People who use VPN to access X will be subject to daily fines of US$8,900"

Edit: Thanks for this user https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41404325 for posting the court order and bringing this new information:

Apple and Google must remove all VPN apps from their stores!

Apple and Google must DELETE all VPN apps already installed on users' phones!!!

https://apnews.com/article/brazil-musk-x-suspended-de-moraes...

Re: Brazilian court orders suspension of X

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Post by outside1234 »

IncreasePosts wrote: post #4

Can anyone speak to the motivations of this judge? Does he have a valid/legal/moral point under Brazilian law with attempts to ban those accounts on X? Or is he just a toady for da Silva?

Yes - there is a law that you need to have legal representation in Brazil and Musk is just flouting the law.

So shutdown it is for Musk

Re: Brazilian court orders suspension of X

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Post by outside1234 »

eatonphil wrote: post #2

> The decision imposes a daily fine of R$50,000 (£6,800) on individuals and companies that attempt to continue using X via VPN. Fining even users is a bit surprising.

Probably not going to be enforced, but just the same sort of an own goal.

Should have kept the focus on Elon Musk breaking the law.

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