# Brazil plans to fine anyone who tries to use X via VPN

Source: https://mashable.com/article/brazil-x-ban-elon-musk-fine-vpn
Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Brazil-plans-to-fine-anyone-who-tries-to-use-X-via-VPN?index=0x66d367da045ca18cfb94cce3644f209f5643e4e5b118ea44a3517c2f94dfe01f48b24226
Submitted by misha on 2024-08-31 UTC, 5 upvotes, 0 comments

## Summary

Brazil has banned X, formerly Twitter, and plans to fine anyone who tries to access it there using workarounds such as VPNs, with fines reaching nearly $9,000 per day, according to a New York Times report. The ban followed a dispute that began when Brazil's government ordered the site to stop hosting disinformation and Elon Musk called that censorship. X had shut down its Brazil operations earlier this year, and when it did not appoint a legal representative in the country within 24 hours of a Wednesday order, X was banned.

## Article

Brazil is serious about this ban of Elon Musk's X (formerly Twitter).

After banning the social network within its borders, one nugget in the New York Times' report about the story stands out: Anyone who tries to access X in Brazil using technical workarounds like VPNs will be fined substantially. To be more specific, those people could be fined as much as nearly $9,000 per day for using X in Brazil.

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While a large country's supreme court banning a social network may sound excessive (as if such a thing could happen here), the story of how it happened doesn't exactly paint X and Musk in a positive light. Brazil's government ordered the site to stop hosting disinformation, Musk called it "censorship," and eventually things escalated from there. On Wednesday of this week, X (which shut down its Brazil operations earlier this year) was ordered by Brazil to appoint a legal representative in the country within 24 hours; X did not do this. As such, X is now banned in Brazil.

And if you try to get around that ban, you'll have to pay up. Be careful.