by Christopher Tomlinson, The National Pulse:
Following Brazilian Supreme Court Judge Alexandre de Moraes’ move to ban the social media platform X (formerly Twitter) the country joins a new club of totalitarian countries that have also prohibited the website. Brazil, a member of the BRICS economic alliance of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa, has entered a new “BRIC” club of themselves, Russia, Iran, and China, who have all banned or limited public access to X within their countries.
Also inside the new club of nations are even more nakedly totalitarian countries like Myanmar, formerly Burma, Venezuela, and North Korea.
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Many X users in countries where the social media platform is banned or given limited access can use virtual private networks (VPNs) to circumvent the bans. In Brazil, however, such activity could cost users as much as R$50,000 ($8,882 USD) per day in fines under the new rules.
Judge de Moraes has also demanded that tech giants Google and Apple remove the X app from their mobile stores within the next five days.
ONE-MAN CRUSADE AGAINST X.
The move to ban X comes after months of conflict between the platform and Judge de Moraes, which reached the point that the platform’s owner, Elon Musk, ordered his staff to leave the country or laid them off. Musk went so far as to shut down their physical office over alleged arrest threats and censorship demands.
The Supreme Court and Musk have been battling over the banning of accounts labeled “digital militias” that were accused of spreading “fake news” and “hate” during former President Jair Bolsonaro’s government. Musk reacted to the ban on Friday afternoon, stating, “The oppressive regime in Brazil is so afraid of the people learning the truth that they will bankrupt anyone who tries.”
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