PARIS — With its ban of X, which went into impact on Saturday, Brazil joins a small membership of nations to have taken related measures towards the social community, most of them run by authoritarian regimes.
Past everlasting bans, some nations have quickly restricted entry to X, previously Twitter, which has usually been utilized by political dissidents to speak.
These have included Egypt in 2011 throughout the Arab Spring uprisings, Turkey in 2014 and 2023, and Uzbekistan round that nation’s 2021 presidential election.
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Here’s a checklist of among the others.
China
Beijing banned Twitter in June 2009 — earlier than it secured the distinguished place it loved in Western media and politics for a lot of the 2010s.
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The block got here two days earlier than the 20-year anniversary of the federal government’s crushing of pro-democracy demonstrations within the capital’s Tiananmen Sq..
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Since then, many Chinese language folks have turned to home-grown alternate options equivalent to Weibo and WeChat.
Iran
Twitter was additionally blocked by Tehran in 2009, as a wave of demonstrations broke out following a contested June presidential election.
The community has however been used since then to cross data to the surface world about dissident actions, together with the demonstrations towards Iran’s repression of girls’s rights since late 2022.
Turkmenistan
Remoted Central Asian nation Turkmenistan blocked Twitter within the early 2010s alongside many different overseas on-line companies and web sites.
Authorities in Ashgabat surveil intently residents’ utilization of the web, offered by state-run monopoly operator TurkmenTelecom.
North Korea
Pyongyang opened its personal Twitter account in 2010 in a bid to woo foreigners within the nation.
However the utility has been blocked together with Fb, Youtube and playing and pornography web sites since April 2016.
Web entry past a couple of authorities web sites is beneath tight authorities watch within the hermit regime, with entry restricted to some high-ranking officers.
Myanmar
X has been blocked since February 2021, when authorities took intention on the app for its use by opponents of the navy coup that overthrew Aung San Suu Kyi’s civilian authorities.
Since then, the junta has saved a decent grip on web entry in Myanmar.
Russia
Entry to Twitter was throttled from 2021 by Moscow, which complained the positioning was permitting customers to unfold “unlawful content material”.
A proper ban got here in March 2022, simply after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Many Russian customers proceed to connect with X by way of VPN companies that permit them to get across the block.
Pakistan
X has been banned since parliamentary polls in February this 12 months.
Pakistan’s authorities, backed by the military, say the block is for safety causes.
Former prime minister Imran Khan — now in jail — was focused by widespread allegations of fraud unfold by way of the platform towards his opposition get together.
Venezuela
Nicolas Maduro, who was declared winner of July’s presidential election regardless of grave suspicions of fraud, ordered entry to X suspended for 10 days on August 9 as safety forces had been violently placing down nationwide demonstrations.
The block has remained in place past the expiry of the 10-day interval.
Brazil
The nation’s block on X has come from the judiciary, by way of Supreme Courtroom choose Alexandre de Moraes.
He has highlighted the reactivation of accounts that had been ordered suspended by Brazilian courts.
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Customers connecting to X by way of a VPN face a advantageous of fifty,000 reais ($8,900) per day.
