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[–] [email protected] 34 points 3 months ago (4 children)

A search Friday on X showed hundreds of Brazilian users inquiring about VPNs that could potentially enable them to continue using the platform by making it appear they were logging on from outside the country.

This is your chance to break free.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

"Hundreds"? Oh my God there are "hundreds" of them. A solid user base for a social media app there.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

On the bright side, more people using VPNs.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

Unfortunately people like routine. Look how many people went back to reddit after the mobile disaster.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago (1 children)

There is something that most news articles aren't paying attention to: the judge requested Google and Apple to remove VPN apps from their marketplaces. Not just apply fines to those who dare to use VPNs in order to access X, but removing the VPNs altogether. I mean, I use OpenVPN Client for making a LAN to connect my smartphone and my laptop together (so, for example, I can use KDE Connect between a smartphone over mobile network and a laptop over cable internet). I don't even have an X account, but a decision focused on that platform is extending its reaches beyond the intended target, affecting those who use VPN for professional and technical purposes.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

He already backed down on this vpn ban, because he heard smarter people than him saying he should.

https://veja.abril.com.br/coluna/radar/moraes-recua-de-decisao-sobre-veto-a-vpn-para-acessar-o-x/