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Brazilian judge suspends X platform after it refuses to name a legal representative

www.ctvnews.ca Brazilian judge suspends X platform after it refuses to name a legal representative

A Brazilian Supreme Court justice on Friday ordered the suspension of Elon Musk's social media giant X in Brazil after the tech billionaire refused to name a legal representative in the country, according to a copy of the decision seen by The Associated Press.

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Good.
However, I'm curious about how they plan to implement this, technologically.
Like will it be a court order to ISPs to block X at a DNS level?
Will Musk go full Qanon and make a big deal about making an X darknet site for Brazil or some dumb shit?
We live in a fucking circus, and the clowns are running the show.
- Like will it be a court order to ISPs to block X at a DNS level?
  Yes, I believe the next step is for the Telecomm Agency to issue an ordinance. Google and Apple now have to remove the app from the store. Apparently VPNs are also not allowed to access it but I dunno how that would even work.
  
  Perhaps VPN servers in Brazil (I'm no lawyer) but people can choose to connect to servers outside the country.
  
  They'll probably let people access it but public figures profiles will get fined if they post something.
  
  Yeah, you know how it goes. It's illegal but you can do it if you want to.
  
  Basically yeah.
  
  Apparently VPNs are also not allowed to access it but I dunno how that would even work
  That's the point: they can't. However, based by the judge's inquiry, the VPN apps are to be removed from app marketplaces, every single one of them. He asked Google and Apple to remove VPN apps altogether. This extrapolates the boundary of "blocking X", because VPNs aren't solely used for "bypassing ISP blocking", VPNs are also used to link two or more devices into the same LAN over ther Internet, but this will be affected as soon as these apps vanish from Brazilian marketplaces.
- Like will it be a court order to ISPs to block X at a DNS level?
  I think that's exactly it and how I understand this sentence:
  Given that operators are aware of the widely publicized standoff and their obligation to comply with an order from de Moraes, plus the fact doing so isn't complicated, X could be offline as early as 12 hours after receiving their instructions, said Luca Belli, coordinator of the Technology and Society Center at the Getulio Vargas Foundation, a university in Rio de Janeiro.
- Like will it be a court order to ISPs to block X at a DNS level?
  It will be exactly this.

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