Posted on 08/30/2024 1:30:55 PM PDT by hardspunned
This follow today's announcement of Brazil's Supreme Court officially banning X in the country.
(Excerpt) Read more at x.com ...
I’d love to join X.
But I was banned from Twitter in 2019, note the timing, and when I checked last was still banned from creating a new account.
Go figure.
I think there are still some...issues...at X.
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The oppressive regime in Brazil is so afraid of the people learning the truth that they will bankrupt anyone who tries
Buncha Commie fascists....
Democracy died there.
Didn’t I see an article in the last couple of days saying that the CIA rigged the election in Brazil to elect the communist?
And, I imagine that the CIA has back-doors to most VPN’s and I wouldn’t be surprised if they (and NSA and FBI) actually own and operate some of the VPNs.
Or is that just too ‘tin-hatty’ of me?
Have you tried Truth Social?
Your opinion re same?
I think all social networks (X, FaceBook, Telegram, Instagram, etc, etc...) have destroyed our youth and is gangrening our society towards decadence.
It gives us a false perception of free speech, when in reality it destroys it.
Social networks have caused an utter inflation of information. We are drowning in it. Thus, information has lost its value. Information means nothing these days.
At the same time we can’t count on journalism anymore. Since most journalists have become tied to political parties or political entities.
Thats why I always try to minimize the noise, by reading all parties points of views from left to right, and then forge my opinion based on my core personal values and common sense.
One of those core values is that no Big Government or greedy politicians should be allowed to annex other nations lands by force.
Regardless, the fallback is always your own DNS, which invariably is your Internet provider's DNS, by default.
Even if it is your own DNS provider, you do not encrypt the DNS request, by default.
There are ways to do this “just right,” but you have to be quite careful.
If Brazil's government is told by your Internet provider you requested “twitter.com” to get resolved to an IP address—you are getting a door knock. After they get your devices, they will see you accessed Twitter through a VPN.
Can you say left wing communism and suppression of free speech?
George Orwell warned us all about this in his dystopian novel “1984.” I read it in the late sixties. I found it amusing and entertaining science fiction. I had no idea in my youth it was a warning to us in the future.
!984 is no longer a novel of interest. !984 is the philosophical directive of the left.
I wish we had of listened to Orwell 50 years ago.
Brazilian commies? How about the commies running the CIA and the State Department.
Wait, if you have a solid VPN, HOW WILL THEY KNOW you went to X?
You’re right. Unfortunately, they have the tried and true fascist answer so no one can get away with that.
Arrest and fine everyone.
Who made Alexandre de Moraes Brazil’s Stalin?
Time to use a VPN to access Tor. People in China are able to get around the Great Firewall of China so you know there’s no way they can stop determined people.
It’s beginning to get that coordinated, world wide repression vibe like at the beginning of the Scamdemic.
Brazil the new China
Make a new email account with a different screen name.
If you don’t think ISPs can monitor your endpoint connections, you’re a fool. All they have to do is figure out where you are connecting, and even if it’s a VPN, it’s known. The IANA registers IP address ranges. All they have to do is identify that someone on a Brazil telco or ISP is connecting to one of the identified VPN-owned IP addresses, and they can fine them. It’s not difficult.
VPNs aren’t designed to anonymize you to your carrier. It only masks where you’re going on the other end.
“If VPNs’ are as private as they claim, how is he going to trace them to fine them?”
One way is to torture you until you unlock your phone and then see what’s cached (that’s IP talk). If it’s anything from this day forward, then you’re hosed. Obviously they could be led to you in a number of ways: First, they will know you’re on a VPN, so you’re likely in the 1 or 2 percent of people to start with - then, simply a tip from someone and you’re through.
Keep in mind, they only have to catch enough people to keep running Show Trials - others will get the message. Not much different than how the US Justice Department operates regarding conservatives.
Brazil used to be ruled by a dictator named Getulio Vargas. It sounds like the Brazilians are returning to their authoritarian roots.
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