Brazilian court orders suspension of X

Post by dalmo3 » Fri, Aug 30, 2024, 10:20 PM UTC

Natsu wrote: post #111

jrflowers wrote: post #47

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Defying court orders can get you arrested in any country even if you and others deem them to be “too arbitrary”

Moraes is on the Brazilian STF, the highest court in the land. In other countries, this kind of stuff would go through multiple lower courts. Here, the head guy is just giving direct orders and answers to approximately no one. So it's the orders of one judge acting as judge, jury & executioner, which is not how we normally think of lawful process. Now that is the Brazilian system but... there's a damn good reason oth…

Post by tmaly » Fri, Aug 30, 2024, 10:23 PM UTC

Post by thrance » Fri, Aug 30, 2024, 10:23 PM UTC

hereme888 wrote: post #126

thrance wrote: post #62

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A quick google search on Mike Benz came up with his recent interview by Tucker Carlson titled "The Deep State's Step-by-Step Plan to End Free Speech". You know Tucker Carlson is such a big fan of Putin, he was the only western journalist allowed to interview him, which he did. Just listen to the interview, they both just spew fascistic nonsense for two hours. Tucker desperately tries to have Putin condemn the America…

> A quick google search on Mike Benz....You know Tucker Carlson is such a big fan of Putin... Mike Benz probably uses higher quality evidence for what he presents than a quick Google search, whether he is right or not.

Post by matheusmoreira » Fri, Aug 30, 2024, 10:29 PM UTC

virgulino wrote: post #5

"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...

Post by matheusmoreira » Fri, Aug 30, 2024, 10:30 PM UTC

ddtaylor wrote: post #36

throwaway87267 wrote: post #13

The same judge that is responsible for X's suspension ordered Apple and Google to take down VPN apps from their app stores as well. https://web.archive.org/web/20240830201851/https://www.conju... (Page 49 and 50, document is in Portuguese) Brazil is heading down a very dark path.

For anyone curious: Proton VPN Express VPN NordVPN Surfshark, TOTALVPN Atlas VPN Bitdefender VPN There are some pretty well known VPNs that are NOT on that list. Private Internet Access (PIA) for example is absent. Sure, it's used more for torrenting than anything else, but it's one of the most popular VPNs. I thought maybe PIA just doesn't operate in Brazil, but they actually have a specific page dedicated to it: ht…