Musk’s X returns to Brazil for some users, evades nationwide ban

On August 30, Justice Alexandre de Moraes of the Supreme Court ordered a national ban on X as it failed to comply with the court orders. The court had asked the company to take down certain accounts, appoint a legal representative in the country among others.

Justice Moraes also initiated a fine on people in Brazil to not use any Virtual Private Network (VPN) and access the banned platform. That led to the national ban of X in Brazil until Wednesday, when some users, including journalists, were able to access it.

On August 30, Justice Alexandre de Moraes of the Supreme Court ordered a national ban on X as it failed to comply with the court orders. (AP Photo)

According to Associated Press, the experts weighed in on the subject and said that Musk’s X has started to route the users through the servers of Cloudflare, a content delivery network, en route to its own.

Pedro Diogenes, Latin America’s technical director for CLM, stated that “The service that Elon Musk’s social network has started using works like a ‘digital shield’ that protects the company’s servers.”

Diogenes further told the Associated Press that the digital shield acts as a proxy between X and users servers which filters traffic and also prevents the user’s original Internet Protocol (IP) address from being recognized.

Brazil’s former president Jair Bolsonaro celebrated the return of X in the country and posted congratulations on X. He said, “I congratulate you all for the pressure that makes the wheels turn in defence of democracy in Brazil.”

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