> Brazil’s Supreme Court has announced that anyone in the country using a VPN to access X will be fined up to $8,874 a day.
Uhm how will they actually know? That's the whole point of public VPN.
Uhm how will they actually know? That's the whole point of public VPN.
2 - Use some Court order to inform which Brazilians accounts made login during that time
3 - Give time to that users so they prove that whey were outside Brazil during the time
4 - Failing that, there's an assumption that the Brazilian user acessed the X while it was blocked and used some technology to circumvent it
Not that hard. Indeed, very simple, and many users that are trying VPNs right now don't have this tech knowledge to consider the long-term effects of theis actions.
(How the PD is supposed to be checking their Twitter account amid the blockade, I don’t know.)
Personally I'm on social media to talk to my friends. If they block just 1/3rd of my friends, when there's a different non-blocked service my group of friends will move to it. A sort of reverse network effect.
The ban and fine will deter advertisers, anyone making traceable payments, people using their real name, anyone operating a business presence, and anyone straight-laced who believes in following the law. Thanks to this fine, nobody's going to be in a hurry to encourage their friends to get a VPN. And thanks to app stores the state can also get the apps yanked from almost all phones. That's more than enough to trigger the reverse network effect.
The aim here is to either get Twitter to the negotiating table, or to punish them. That's accomplished by blocking 90% of users, the last 10% really won't make a difference either way.
Can ISPs really find this out? Of course if Oops betray users -another win for Musk & Starlink- but short of that?
Is tapping into ISP connections to known VPN IP addresses the only way?
It’s like seatbelt laws or driving without a license, some offenses exist which are usually identified only because some other potential offense else drew attention.