X In Brazil, A Non-Ending Conflict
On Wednesday, Brazilian users were able to access social media platform X in Brazil, despite the ban imposed by Brazil’s judiciary court last month.
An X spokesperson said in a statement that X’s restoration in Brazil happened unintentionally, and Brazilian users swarmed the site after X updated the access to its servers within Brazil.
“To continue providing optimal service to our users, we changed network providers. This change resulted in an inadvertent and temporary service restoration to Brazilian users,” said the platform’s spokesman.
He also stated that even though they are expecting social media platform bans in Brazil soon, they continue to put efforts to solve the X issue with the Brazilian internet regulations to be back soon to let users access X.
Brazilian advisor to the Brazil’s main trade association for Internet Service Providers (ABRINT) insisted that everything happened led them to believe that this act was on purpose. The association claimed that X in Brazil moved to servers adopted by Cloudflare, an IT service management, and it appeared to be using a dynamic internet protocol (IPs) that change constantly, which shows that the change in access to Brazilian users was intended, and users adopted this way without even using virtual private networks (VPNs).
These IPs are harder to get blocked than the old ones, ABRINT advisor said the type of IPs used now are linked to critical services in Brazil and if they would like to block it, they will technically affect other legitimate services, such as PIX a digital payments platform that millions of Brazilians rely on, therefore they will not be able block an IP.
Now the discussion is shifting whether the government should collaborate with Cloudflare, a constitutional lawyer in Brasilia.
“Actually, I think the ban would be even more effective if Cloudflare really cooperates with the government, I think they will, since they are such a huge provider for many Brazilian enterprises and also the government,” Felipe Autran said.
However, Cloudflare did not comment on this statement when contacted by BBC.
On the other hand, Anatel, Brazil’s telecommunications regulator is putting efforts to notify network providers and telecom companies to support X ban in Brazil.
Musk for the past months was trying to put to the efforts in regaining trust of governments he failed due to misinformation through establishing a more regulatory framework, at least this can be considered as a beacon hope to end the X in Brazil problem.
Brazil X Ongoing Conflict
This not the first time X in Brazil faces problems, the ongoing conflict of X banned in Brazil has been the talk of many in the past months, Brazilian government is trying to protect its people from misinformation and harmful content shared on the platform, but at the same time it is eliminating access to Brazilian users and destroying X in Brazil one of the biggest markets that X has in the world.
X ban in Brazil reached new heights in tension, and the curiosity is driving many to know what will happen next, the question remains: Will Brazilian government and Musk put hand in hand one day and find a solution for this never-ending X in Brazil problem?
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