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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You’re putting the cart before the horse.
Twitter is banned in Brazil and cannot be accessed.
If it is known you are in Brazil (and are notable enough to be noticed; such as a company or a celebrity) and are accessing Twitter; then you had to be using a VPN to be accessing it.
If all you’re doing is lurking; then yeah you can probably get away with it. But if you’re big enough and you’re liking, commenting and making your own posts then you’re going to get caught and fined.
It’s like a musician hiring a transportation company to drive them to a surprise public concert in an abandoned building.
The company doesn’t have to tell anyone that they drove someone there; it’s everyone seeing your concert that’s going to logically say “they had to have been taken there.”
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