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Meanwhile the fine for driving drunk and endangering people in Brazil is only $500. $9000 for just visiting(not even posting) any Twitter page seems excessive.

What if people that normally use a VPN or a remote job corporate VPN in another country accidently click or get redirected to a Twitter link? Twitter links are all over the web.

List of countries where its illegal to access X: Russia, China, Iran, Myanmar, North Korea, Venezuela, Brazil and Turkmenistan

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Well, not our fault that our laws have provisions for blocking an entire app or service if they fail to comply with the local law. See it as you like, I like to see it as putting Musk in his place and forcing him to comply with the local laws or leave.

You're happy that the pro-government-censorship side is putting the pro-right-to-free-speech side in its place?

Elon cares about free speech? Literally thousands of leftists have been banned since he’s taken over

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