Social media platform Twitter/X became accessible to many users in Brazil on Wednesday as an update to its communications network circumvented a block order by the country’s supreme court.
The X update used cloud services offered by third parties, allowing some Brazilian users to take a route outside of the country to reach X, even without a virtual private network, according to Abrint, the Brazilian Association of Internet and Telecommunications Providers.
The number of Brazilians accessing X is unknown, according to Abrint. X did not immediately reply to a request for comment.
“I believe the change was probably intentional. Why would X use a third-party service that ends up being slower than its own?” said Basilio Perez, a board member at Abrint.
It shouldn’t be tho. Cloudflare is a single business and no single business should EVER have that kind of power over a gov’t.
It’s Cloudflare’s hubris showing in a very unstrategic way … and I hope Brazil/America/the world calls them on it.
I don’t like it either but this is Cloudflare working precisely as it’s intended.
To help a company that’s been banned by the gov’t.
I guarantee you if it had been the American gov’t that banned a site and Cloudflare did this, they’d be called into Congress to answer questions immediately.