will Cloudflare block twitter on brazil?
https://noticias.uol.com.br/colunas/andreza-matais/2024/09/1...
For instance in the UK the government can stop local media from publishing news that is considered libellous or defamatory, or may unjustly influence court cases, but they can't stop citizens from accessing that information if it is published in a news outlet outside the country.
No one is questioning why the Brazilian judiciary should have that power. It seems rather excessive and an infringement of Brazilians rights, though that is not surprising when we live in a era when governments have taking upon themselves to decide what their citizens rights are, when human rights are supposed to be intrinsic, ie those that all fauna on the planet do.
Actually, millions of people are, and senators are seeking this judge's impeachment.
That's the point, they don't. There's nothing in the law for him to back his decisions. But we just hope for our senate to take action.
Shutting down Twitter to stop them implies the Brazilian judiciary doesn't have the ability to sanction them under Brazilian law.
Sure, it makes technically harder to block.. But governments don't rely only technical solutions for problems..
China, like Brazil is doing, would order Cloudflare to block Twitter and they would have to choose either comply and help China block it, like they are doing in Brazil, or challenge and not comply and face the consequences and likely a full block..
Having Cloudflare fully blocked in both countries would be terrible for business as they have many other customers so it is economically best to comply and potentially loose one customer then challenge the order and loose the entire market..
Blocking Cloudflare itself wouldn't make any sense as our country systems themselves would get hurt and I don't think Cloudflare will deny such order.
Elsewhere I've seen only the t.co domain link shortening/forwarding... which could be a small worker app running there, not the main app.
From what I can see some locations in Brazil route to CF, but not all. And only from x.com, not twitter.com
The far better solution is just to ignore stuff you don't agree with, go outside, and move on with life.
