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Twitter is blocked in Brazil
a year ago
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Hello!
If you're on twitter you might've heard about this already, but long story short, twitter has been blocked in Brazil as a result of disagreement betweet Elmo and the supreme court of Brazil. It most likely will not be a permanent thing, but this discourse has been going on for quite some time now and finally it came down to a nationwide block, meaning no one in Brazil has access to twitter right now. They also threatened to fine people a ridiculous amount for using any VPN to access twitter (tho I'm not sure how they expect to track this).
So what now? Now we wait lol. To be quite honest I don't really mind, I hate what twitter has become in the last few years and I genuinely think we're better off without it, but I understand tons of people (myself included) used it to sell our silly little arts and pay our stupid little bills and stay alive. I had just reached 10k followers over there and losing that does sting a bit, but luckily I have alternatives so I'm not too worried. If you followed other brazilian artists make sure to support them outside of twitter now more than ever, cause we don't know how long this will last. As for me, I'll continue posting here and on my telegram channel. I'm also on bluesky and instagram (@/wildlynkk), but those accounts are for sfw art only. Feel free to follow me wherever it's more convenient for you!
That's it for now! Maybe this whole mess will be resolved in a day, maybe in a month, I don't know. But for now I'll enjoy life outside of twitter ✌ Take care!
If you're on twitter you might've heard about this already, but long story short, twitter has been blocked in Brazil as a result of disagreement betweet Elmo and the supreme court of Brazil. It most likely will not be a permanent thing, but this discourse has been going on for quite some time now and finally it came down to a nationwide block, meaning no one in Brazil has access to twitter right now. They also threatened to fine people a ridiculous amount for using any VPN to access twitter (tho I'm not sure how they expect to track this).
So what now? Now we wait lol. To be quite honest I don't really mind, I hate what twitter has become in the last few years and I genuinely think we're better off without it, but I understand tons of people (myself included) used it to sell our silly little arts and pay our stupid little bills and stay alive. I had just reached 10k followers over there and losing that does sting a bit, but luckily I have alternatives so I'm not too worried. If you followed other brazilian artists make sure to support them outside of twitter now more than ever, cause we don't know how long this will last. As for me, I'll continue posting here and on my telegram channel. I'm also on bluesky and instagram (@/wildlynkk), but those accounts are for sfw art only. Feel free to follow me wherever it's more convenient for you!
That's it for now! Maybe this whole mess will be resolved in a day, maybe in a month, I don't know. But for now I'll enjoy life outside of twitter ✌ Take care!
Hope the bastard capitulates. Meanwhile, I wish ya luck with your art business!
Thank you!
Meanwhile, Musk is also suing Media Matters, and calling for freakin' prison sentences to be given to its journalists, here in the States because they said some things about him that he didn't like. So his love of all things "freedom of speech" is clearly conditional.
Losing access to Twitter/X is actually a victory for the people of Brazil. And also for Bluesky, Instagram, etc.