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 Super cool that Brazil has banned X.

These are the types of actions that truly wake people up on how extremely weak their social media presence is. 
 Time to learn Portuguese 
 Finally somebody who knows that brazilians do speak portuguesea and NOT spanish!  
 Brazilian jiu jitsu is a path full of lessons 🤙 
 Worst part is not even the network itself, couldn’t care less and much prefer nostr.

It’s the people that are there and that now will be out of our reach. I’m not going to fucking instagram 
 Why couldn't they ban TikTok first? 
 Agree. 
 Because Elon refused to block certain profiles of Alexandre's political opponents. 
 Still not getting my contacts to migrate to delete Telegram. They think it’s a cartoon  
 Not cool, but expected 
 The best action they can take is to delete account and remove X. Useless. 
 Predict a big migration to decentralizaded social media like Norst and Fediverse.  
 Biticoin tá de graça ! 
 Vitor will not laugh when Xandão learns about nostr and ban him to vome back to brazil 👻
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 How hard will it be to get information from your isp and your IP connection to either TOR or Nostr known relays?  
 Very easy. ISPs can see connections into Tor if you don't use a VPN from your device. 
 so for us normies who run orbot, how are we to run a VPN along side that on a mobile device? 
 It's just another click, but ultimately it doesn't help much I think. 

You --} ISP --} tor --} exit --} Nostr relay

OR

You --} ISP --} VPN --} tor --} exit --} Nostr relay 
 well in the first scenario your ISP sees you connected to a for node 
 tor* 
 VPNs have even more popular IPs. Especially if you use Nord or express. 
Sounds like a big red flag in the VPN/ISP/DNS/Government log. 

Is there any real way to privacy/anonymity?  
 it’s not super cool, but proves my earlier take:

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 It doesn't work that way. Forbidden fruit is sweet. 
 This is true.
But it's time to act. Those who have their #X accounts still active, go and help direct your fellow Brazilians to nostr. Invite them as a final act of X contact. Then meet them chilling out here :) 
 They still have instagram right ?? 
 For now 
 X banned in Brazil, dictatorship is about to begin  
 X and Instagram both banned in Russia, people still use them anyway. Even the most tech illitirate normies figured out how to run VPN on their phones, so generally ban means nothing. 
 True, censorship by the platform itself is more insidious  
 Indeed.

Imagine a free and open internet.  
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 Judges ban platforms.
Will they ban protocols?

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 They can try