The social network X made a technical change that allowed to avoid the blockade judicial process of which it is the object in Brazilthe Brazilian Association of Internet and Telecommunications Providers (Abrint) said on Wednesday.
“The X app was updated (…) overnight, resulting in a significant change in its structure“That change “made the blockade much more difficult,” he said. Abrint in a statement posted on its website.
The old Twitter was back on Wednesday partially accessible in Brazil, after having been suspended on August 30 by the Supreme Court due to judicial non-compliance, and began to use the services of Cloudflarea cybersecurity company, said Abrint’s advisor, Rodríguez Pérez.
The latest version of the app “no longer connects directly to X over X’s own networks, accessed through Cloudflare” Perez. According to Abrint, this company allows the internet ip addresses are constantly changing, which makes it more difficult block them if they are specific IPs.
Fines for violating the blockade
He Supreme Federal Court (STF) told AFP that it was “checking information about access to X by some users.” On the other hand, the Supreme Court judge Alexandre de Moraesordered the blocking of the network, owned by Elon Musk, accusing it of violating court orders to suspend accounts accused of disinformation and refuse to appoint a legal representative in Brazil.
By blocking the network, Moraes warned the 22 million users of the platform in Brazil, that whoever violates the order by accessing the platform through “subterfuges” such as virtual private networks (VPN), exposes themselves to fines daily of US$9,000.
Debates on freedom of expression
The former president Jair Bolsonaroone of the biggest critics of the veto, was quick to post on Wednesday for the first time since August 30: “I congratulate everyone for the pressure that moved gears in defense of democracy in Brazil (…), ban the country’s largest social network “It was not about punishing a company, it was about punishing millions of Brazilians.”
According to Rodriguez Perez, Cloudflare is used by “more than 24 million sites in the world including banks, media outlets, sites of the Brazilian government itself,” to which the union spokesman added that “we have to wait for new guidelines on what to do and how to do it, because you cannot simply block something that could block an important service or necessary for the population“.
On the old X, some users expressed their surprise at the return of the network, and regarding the court order to suspend the platform, it has fueled the debate on the freedom of expression and the limits of social networks inside and outside the South American country. Moraes recently accused Elon Musk of being a “evil dictator“.
Source: Ambito
