I recently saw that in Brazil, people who use VPNs to access X/Twitter after the ban could apparently be fined. I’m no expert whatsoever, but isn’t the whole point of VPNs to encrypt all of your activity? If so, how would the offenders, so to speak, even be caught and fined??
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I think a lot of people here are missing the point of the law.
The point is not to make it technically impossible to post on Twitter from Brazil – yes, one can imagine a number of workarounds, such as using a VPN, establishing a service to post on your behalf from outside the country, etc.
The point is to make it inconvenient and risky enough to go through your feed and post, so most people will just give up. Plus, a social network like Twitter gets its value from the network effect – even if you’re technically savvy and find a bulletproof way to use Twitter, if 99% of your countrymen (and in particular your friends) can’t / don’t bother, is there still that much value in using Twitter anyway?
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