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Nah, the Brazilian government will lose this round. X is not going to cave, and the government doesn’t have the technological capacity to quickly spin up their own Great Firewall.

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I bet China would be happy to help. It also cracks me up that people on this site were almost entirely in favor of a TikTok ban, but when it’s someone else’s government doing what amounts to the same thing then they’re “heading down a dark path”. Could folks please make up their minds and not treat the US as though it’s exempt from the “dark paths”?

For starters the US never threatened VPN users with a $9k daily fine

That’s what’s coming next.

I've heard that for 15 years straight, they went for adult content RealID before going for VPNs - which, if your beliefs end up being true - was a ridiculous order of priority. Thus, I don't think they'll go for VPNs.

You'd think with all of the people saying "they won't go after..." and being wrong people would show a bit less hubris.

Ah yes, the platform that advocates free speech is totally worth the same hate as the platform that is a demonstrable psyop by a communist regime.

If you believe X advocates free speech, you have an imperfect view of X or free speech. Maybe they made your political speech more permissible, but they are clamping down hard on other speech.

Free speech absolutists should be just as irritated by today's X as yesterday's Twitter. Subbing out one set of permitted speech for a different set is not a free speech win.

Pretty simple explanation: US good, rest bad.

January 8th in Brazil - "troubled Southern American country", "broken democracy", "banana republic"

January 6th in the US - just a blip in the world's most perfect democracy. etc.

US media in a nutshell: https://imgflip.com/memetemplate/460629937/our-blessed-homel...

The average person doesn't know what a DNS is and isn't willing to pay for a VPN. Society isn't a tech bubble.

I don't know what you mean by "the average person" but most of my friends in Brazil, even the relatively tech illiterates, not only know what a VPN is but many or even most of them either have paid or currently pay for one.

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