• breakfastmtn@lemmy.ca
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    5 months ago

    In a highly unusual move, Justice Moraes also said that any person in Brazil who tried to still use X via common privacy software called a virtual private network, or VPN, could be fined nearly $9,000 a day.

    Wild stuff.

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      5 months ago

      … Would they know, if it’s via a VPN?

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      5 months ago

      He tried to forbid VPN downloads too, but backpedaled on that. All the government uses VPN to work from home. Imagine you’re in this scenario and open X by mistake, 9k!