17 Replies to “Mischief Is Important”

    1. It’s not that they can block X in Brazil, it’s that they threatened to heavily fine any Brazilians who access X from within Brazil, so the more if us who VPN as if we are in Brazil the harder it will be for them to find and persecute Brazilians.

      1. Yep, two laptops and a phone running Brazilian (phrasing) rest of the family have been switching too.

  1. aka what happens when untech-savy (an) authoritarian(s) create(s)
    a variation of the streisand effect.

  2. If they cant get Elon.. They will get his subscribers.. The only thing they hate more than a Trump win is people talking about it..

  3. I’m not a computer Geek. Can someone explain how the whole VPN works and why is it effective in this case.

    1. I used a Virtual Private Network connection to the company server while working from home during cofefe. It’s a secure connection between the host and a client.
      How many corp VPN’s used in Brazil?
      That AG is a blunt tool.

    2. A (V)irtual (P)rivate (N)etwork is a form of communications encryption where your laptop or phone creates a secure, encrypted connection to a VPN server somewhere else in the world. Any Internet traffic from your phone/laptop goes through the encrypted connection to the server and then out to the public Internet. To anyone observing, it looks like your traffic is coming from the server, not wherever your phone/laptop is.

      In this case, it allows Brazilians to post on X by making it appear that they are posting from another country. It also allows other people to appear that they are posting on X from a location in Brazil (by connecting to a VPN server that is located in Brazil). Both of these make it difficult for the Brazilian authorities to determine who in Brazil is actually violating these ridiculous orders.

  4. In other news, millions of Brasileiros are setting their VPN to USA and using “X”.

    Good grief, I really wish Elon would go back to the “Twitter” name.

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