Brazil's X ban is sending lots of people to Bluesky

This is all very unfortunate. It's sad to see liberalism dying in Brazil in real time. The very little reported thing is that this judge also installed a fine of something like $8000 per month (more than double the top percentile salary) for anyone using a VPN and also demanded that Apple and Google remove X and any VPNs from their app stores.

Brazil is rapidly turning into a police state.

*back into a police state

Unfortunately western countries are no longer willing to set a good example to encourage developing countries to follow.

The VPN part was almost immediately overturned, but it is concerning that it was included in the first place

...using a vpn to access twitter.