X working again in Brazil as Elon Musk finds way around ban (using Cloudflare)
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>In India, which is immersed in an autocratic drift that for months has been choking the media, journalists and critical voices, Twitter has also seconded government bans. To justify the consent, Musk said: “The rules in India for what can appear on social media are quite strict, and we can’t go beyond the laws of a country,” and in doing so put his staff at risk, he added. “If we have a choice of either our people going to prison or us complying with the laws, we will comply with the laws.” This justification came after Twitter removed content related to a BBC documentary that was highly critical of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, which was blocked in January by the Indian government.
https://english.elpais.com/international/2023-05-24/under-el...
Elon is not questioning our laws, or India or Turkey. He is questioning that the judge is not following our laws and he's right.
[1]. https://www.planalto.gov.br/ccivil_03/_ato2011-2014/2014/lei...
[1]. https://static.poder360.com.br/2024/09/decisao-stf-x.pdf (Portuguese)
There was no attempt of coup d'état in Brazil, just a bunch of stupid people protesting and breaking public buldings, just like several other groups, for different reasons did the same in the past.
> it was opened an investigation
The investigation itself is illegal, because it's investigating people that should not be investigated by that branch of justice. Our supreme court only judges constitutional matters and politicians on the federal level, not regular citizens.
> Then some xitter profiles started a coordinated threat and doxxing campaign against police investigators who took this case.
That's also false, nobody ever attacked the police.
> So the brazilian supreme court ordered xitter to provide information and block seven profiles involved in this doxxing campaign, what it refused to do.
Which there are no base in the law, which it's the problem being pointed here.
Unlike "Common Law" countries, in Brazil judges can only do what the law says they can do. There's absolutely NOWHERE in our law, that says if someone commits something, their social network profile will be blocked.
[1] https://www.correiobraziliense.com.br/economia/2024/09/69349... (Portuguese)
"The social media giant published pictures of a document allegedly signed by Moraes which says a daily fine of 20,000 reais ($3,653) and an arrest decree would be imposed against X representative Rachel Nova Conceicao if the platform did not fully comply to Moraes' orders. 'To protect the safety of our staff, we have made the decision to close our operation in Brazil, effective immediately,' X said."
https://www.reuters.com/technology/x-close-operations-brazil...
They just need to send a court order to Cloudflare to have then block Twitter..
That is pretty much what already happened and Cloudflare already replied informing they will isolate Twitter IP range from the rest of the customers..
By this time tomorrow it will be blocked again..
when i posted they had already announced they would comply to the block, i wa referring to that..
that they isolated twitter traffic to 2 specific ip address that can easily be blocked.. the block is already in place for the big ISPs and the rest should have it blocked by the end of day..
I'm sure Brazil could attempt to have anyone extradited, regardless of citizenship status.
Whether the US would honor that request or be in any way obligated to is beyond my understanding of the law.