This is so insane…
Brazil banning X and fine anyone $8,000 per day if they see them use X via VPN
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Honestly, don’t know what I want to see more. People not complying with that stupid diktat or people moving over here. 🤔😀
But probably good for Nostr!
Nostr does not solve this.
Wow. News to me. Fascinating couple of weeks, in which it’s so clear the large governments stance on freedom of speech tech
TG & X have a ceo to go after, or registered users. Nostr is ofc a save haven from that
I wonder, as a content creator, how does it “feel” to know you can publish somewhere that can’t be switched off?
Each time this type of behaviour is seen only amplifies the use case for Nostr (like inflation or seizure of fiat does for BTC)
completely crazy and totalitarian
What a great future investment opportunity, those $8,800 will in the future buy double the R$50,000 fine.
Horrible investment advice alert.
Boycot taxes
GTFO
This is so insane…
Brazil banning X and fine anyone $8,000 per day if they see them use X via VPN
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Insane! Maybe a good time to bring @npub1nstr...rg5l to Brazil
Elon is buying time for us.
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#🇧🇷
This is so insane…
Brazil banning X and fine anyone $8,000 per day if they see them use X via VPN
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FAX
BUT SEND IN @jo 🇺🇸 with her love and kindness cause that’s what the world needs 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Nostrio
Don't tell that Breton guy 🇪🇺
It's unlikely to happen if they use Mullvad as VPN and pay with a L3 solution like fedimint.
Of course, the account must be anonymous. 🤔 Maybe they should stick with Nostr.
Just asked some Brazilian friends, and they said that there will be something coming against that judge next week who made that a reality, like a demonstration or something alike
It's VPN. How would they know what they're talking to.
Ouch. Things are getting North Korea levels over there. Did @npub1sn0w...jdv9 ever disavowed his support for Lula?
sounds hard to police the vpn usage
I’d be more worried about the embarrassment being seen using X than any fine.
X lol
I think the thread is explicitly against known Brazilians that keep posting on X, regardless how they did it.
Brazilian folks try and pitch Nostr to your friends when you hear them complaining about this.
This is so insane…
Brazil banning X and fine anyone $8,000 per day if they see them use X via VPN
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Just an idea: now that he's made some enemies in the silicon valley, the us and perhaps europe should sanction him, possibly all the 11 dictators and the idiot who enables him by to using his constitutional attribution of impeaching him?
There's like a thousand human rights violation associated with him.
Da fuq?
That would make sense.
They just need to make the threat to discourage a percentage of people that otherwise would give it a shot.
They also banned some VPNs from app store and play store but realistic they can’t track most people that use fake profiles.
question is always: what's your price when you stop using a VPN or something.
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Depends on the tech your ISP knows you're using a VPN...
Fine, they can use nostr
Lol, dont know the specifics … but sounds like that gov deserves to get overthrown.
no nostr or Bitcoin conferences in Brazil
Wouldn’t 20% give-or-take of the population use one though?
ok. create freedom! 🇧🇷 #nostr
What if they fine 8000 a day to use Nostr?
well damn then #NostrFTW
Yeah agree
Also means that a lot of people are learning what a VPN is and how to use it.
that’s some special form of stupid
Is this true? #[2]
is that The Streisand Effect?
🎯
If they win there is no turning back
I’m all in either way on FT
🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡
Yeah, but Bolsonaro is trying to move the target away from this bastard's head and nobody know why this crooked judge is so powerful and so protected. The main line of investigation points to the main drug cartel. Strong evidences indicates this judge is the strong man of the cartel in the supreme court
Wouldn’t be surprised if the central banks weren’t behind the election theft which has lead to this.
Bring back the Inquisition! No one expects the Brazilian inquisition!
Do #Nostr need VPN too as in this case?
Are you back in Brazil?
No
What's absolutely exciting about #nostr is that if people flock to it due to censorship of other platforms like X, it will retain and grow exponentially.
And it can't be stopped or censored like X can be.
While still allowing various controls to protect people's identities or verify identities depending on each user's login.
This plaform is EPIC for free speech.
This is so insane…
Brazil banning X and fine anyone $8,000 per day if they see them use X via VPN
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How do they see them
Here in Brazil we live in a state of exception
Lo de Brasil es otro nivel...
Te multan si usas X con una VPN...
Cuando los estados pierden el control de la narrativa, empiezan a tomar acciones extremas.
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Brazilians will be coming here
is there a Nostr client that lets you disguise it as another app?
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They try to police the internet when they are unable to police their streets.
they need obscuravpn but can´t join yet...😏
Source? I’m barely on X or “news” sites anymore
Hi Thiago, I just found Primal .. I'm trying to escape from censorship in our beloved country
That's crazy. But they could also use Tor.
Can they actually “see” them, or have they made the fine so insanely large that it scares people into not using a vpn ?
If it's true that's crazy. Nightmare
Brazil is gonna convert a whole bunch Brazilians into NOSTRich bitcoiners
Scare tactics
It's natural, anyone who doesn't learn to use decentralized technologies will be obliterated by dictators
Wait what??? That’s insane
Nice.
Unlikely they could enforce it. I’ve been using VPN forever.
Wow that’s a pretty fascist move.
How do they even know if you are using X via VPN?
As long as Twitter account is anonymous they can't know if they are using X with VPN.
which is also basically a vpn..
Did we create such a world?
I think that depends on the VPN. Some don't obfuscate so the #ISP can clearly see the customer is using a #VPN. I imagine if they can, it's one more law away, forcing ISPs to block VPN destination outside the country?
A good VPN will look like this, but many will give you away, even some well known ones. Brazilians better educate themselves sharpish.
whats vpn do you recommend?
I think they do now. That's not really an issue here in the #UK where I can buy a sim and atop up for #cash in my local supermarket, but i don't know what that's like in #Brazil.
I don't know what's available in #Brazil but generally speaking, #nordvpn and #expressvpn both offer obfuscation. #astrill offer some very sophisticated #obfuscation that even works in #China but they're very expensive.
Yes exactly it is like nested vpns but fare more secure.
#SurfShark is very good value actually, one of my picks.
#IPVanish is on the expensive side unless you enter a very long contract.
It also had trackers on it's site ast time I checked, while #Mullvad had none.
To clarify, for me, the ad #trackers are nothing to worry about. Right now in #Brazil I probably wouldn't want that when I'm signing up.