• DrSteveBrule@mander.xyz
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      6 hours ago

      I still don’t understand how Twitter operates in other countries. It’s accessible because it’s a part of the world wide web. When people use Twitter are they not reaching out to the servers located in America?

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        3 hours ago

        They’re not accessible anymore from a jurisdiction if said jurisdiction which rules they are violating decides to change their networking policies. And because twitter likes to be accessible, twitter decided to comply with the rules eventually. You seem intentionally obtuse btw.

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          1 hour ago

          Some thoughts: (1) networks don’t necessarily run according to judicial borders.
          (2) you also have to penalize the use of rerouting tools, which Brazil seems to have done.
          (3) it became incorrect to refer to it as “world wide web”

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            10 minutes ago

            (1) Agreed of course, but I don’t see much of an issue there. You try to get a 100% coverage on your blockade, but 99% will move twitter to compliance too. same goes for (2). As for (3), I’m not really sure why you directed that at me.

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      9 hours ago

      Apparently, it works by fining users that visit the site. See chapter “Blocking”.

      How nice, a government that puts criminal penalties on it’s citizens reading the (according to them) wrong things. Banning technologies like VPNs.