Musk’s X returns to Brazil for some users, evades nationwide ban

Amid a nationwide ban imposed on social media platform X in Brazil by the country’s Supreme Court, few users reconnected with X on Wednesday as the company possibly changes how its servers are accessed.

This re-union of some X users in Brazil is certainly going to be short lived as Brazil’s telecommunications regulator Anatel has said that it is looking into the situation and will report its findings to the Supreme Court.

On August 30, Justice Alexandre de Moraes of the Supreme Court ordered a national ban on X as it failed to comply with the court orders. The court had asked the company to take down certain accounts, appoint a legal representative in the country among others.

Last night, Alexandre de Moraes threatened our legal representative in Brazil with arrest if we do not comply with his censorship orders. He did so in a secret order, which we share here to expose his actions.

Despite our numerous appeals to the Supreme Court not being heard,… https://t.co/Pm2ovyydhE

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Justice Moraes also initiated a fine on people in Brazil to not use any Virtual Private Network (VPN) and access the banned platform. That led to the national ban of X in Brazil until Wednesday, when some users, including journalists, were able to access it.

On August 30, Justice Alexandre de Moraes of the Supreme Court ordered a national ban on X as it failed to comply with the court orders. (AP Photo)

According to Associated Press, the experts weighed in on the subject and said that Musk’s X has started to route the users through the servers of Cloudflare, a content delivery network, en route to its own.

Pedro Diogenes, Latin America’s technical director for CLM, stated that “The service that Elon Musk’s social network has started using works like a ‘digital shield’ that protects the company’s servers.”

Diogenes further told the Associated Press that the digital shield acts as a proxy between X and users servers which filters traffic and also prevents the user’s original Internet Protocol (IP) address from being recognized.

Brazil’s former president Jair Bolsonaro celebrated the return of X in the country and posted congratulations on X. He said, “I congratulate you all for the pressure that makes the wheels turn in defence of democracy in Brazil.”

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