The social network will go dark in the nation of 200 million, the result of an escalating fight between Elon Musk and a Brazilian judge over what can be said online.
In a highly unusual move, Justice Moraes also said that any person in Brazil who tried to still use X via common privacy software called a virtual private network, or VPN, could be fined nearly $9,000 a day.
He tried to forbid VPN downloads too, but backpedaled on that. All the government uses VPN to work from home. Imagine you're in this scenario and open X by mistake, 9k!