Brazilian Judge Orders $9,000 Fine for Using VPN to Access X
Individuals or companies using the X social media platform after its suspension in Brazil will pay a fine worth about $9,000, according to a court statement.
“Judge Alexandre de Moraes of the Supreme Federal Court ordered the immediate and complete suspension of X in the country… The decision sets a daily fine of 50,000 reais [over $8,900] for individuals and legal entities that use technological tricks to continue using X,” the statement said.
According to Statista, the average Brazilian annual salary was 35,748 reais in 2023, or about $6,370 at today’s exchange rates.
A Virtual Private Network (VPN) is a service that allows users to reroute their internet traffic through a portal, making it appear to websites and services that the user is in that server’s location.Earlier Moraes gave Musk 24 hours to appoint a new legal representative of X in Brazil, saying it would be suspended otherwise.
The deadline expired on Thursday evening. X said on Friday it refuses to comply with “illegal orders” from a court in Brazil and expects to be shut down in the country.
In mid-August, X published a letter from Moraes with demands for censorship and user account information that it said could affect users not only in Brazil, but also in the United States and Argentina. Shortly before that, X posted a letter from the judge requesting the censorship of several accounts held in Brazil, including a sitting parliamentarian.
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Musk Vows to Expose Top Brazilian Judge’s Crimes After Suspension of X
US billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk said on Saturday he would expose the alleged crimes of Brazilian Supreme Court Judge Alexandre de Moraes, who had ordered the nationwide suspension of the X social media network.
“We will begin publishing the long list of [de Moraes’] crimes, along with the specific Brazilian laws that he broke tomorrow. Obviously, he does not need to abide by US law, but he does need to abide by his own country’s laws,” Musk wrote on X.
Judge Alexandre de Moraes told internet providers in the nation of 200 million to block access to X, saying the platform lacked a “necessary legal representative” in Brazil — a key requirement tied to the suspension of accounts, which X had refused to comply with.
In mid-August, X published a letter from de Moraes with demands for censorship and user account information that it said could affect users not only in Brazil, but also in the United States and Argentina.
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Callers Ask: Was The Illuminati Behind The Attempted Assassination Of Trump?
Callers weigh in on The Alex Jones Show about whether the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump was the work of the Illuminati or the lower level Deep State.
Callers Asks: Was The Illuminati Behind The Attempted Assassination Of Trump? pic.twitter.com/cyJWgPMZzv
— Alex Jones (@RealAlexJones) August 30, 2024
VIDEO: Berkeley Law School Dean Tells MSNBC It’s Time To Ditch US Constitution
Alex Jones breaks down the dean of the University of California at Berkeley’s law school calling for the scrapping of the Constitution, claiming that failing to make changes to it would cause the U.S. to “drift toward authoritarianism.”
VIDEO: Berkeley Law School Dean Tells MSNBC It’s Time To Ditch US Constitution
This Is A Direct Attack On Our Republic pic.twitter.com/8qAGv8qlzm— Alex Jones (@RealAlexJones) August 30, 2024
Google Restricts Election-Related Content From Its AI Products
Google is implementing ‘new protections’ for its generative AI products into the election, announcing on Friday that it will extend its policies announced last December for its search and YouTube products.
The restrictions will include a lack of responses for a wide range of election-related queries, including candidates, voting processes, and election results, Axios reports.
Products affected include Search AI overlays, YouTube AI-generated summaries for Live Chat, Gems, and Gemini’s image generation.
“We’re taking a cautious approach because we want to get this right,” said the company.
Google says they’ve made the change due to ‘misinformation concerns’ – particularly around the election.
- It’s essentially up to the industry to regulate uses of generative AI around elections, as Congress has yet to pass any bills and federal agencies look unlikely to take any meaningful action on AI in elections this year.
- Most companies are adapting their existing election policies for their new AI experiences, including OpenAI. -Axios
So – with Google products nerf’d, let’s see how X’s Grok does with realtime election queries as we head into the home stretch. X has already updated Grok after reports that it was spreading election misinformation in regards to ballot deadlines in several states.
In response to queries, the AI assistant will now say “For accurate and up-to-date information about the 2024 US Elections, please visit Vote.gov.”
“We appreciate X’s action to improve their platform and hope they continue to make improvements that will ensure their users have access to accurate information from trusted sources in this critical election year,” said election officials from Minnesota, New Mexico, Michigan, Washington, and Pennsylvania in response to a complaint sent to Musk.
Of course, as Headline USA‘s Ben Sellers wrote this week, according to the Heritage Oversight Project, an election-integrity watchdog launched by prominent conservative think-tank the Heritage Foundation, the deadline for removing Biden from the ballot has already long since passed in Georgia, Wisconsin and Nevada.
This is big. It’s likely already too late to remove Joe Biden from the ballot.
— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) June 28, 2024
WISCONSIN — It’s already too late to remove Joe Biden from the ballot.
NEVADA—After tonight, the fourth Friday in June, it will be too late to remove Joe Biden.
GEORGIA—Only a few weeks remain…
So Grok wasn’t spreading misinformation after all?
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ICC Orders Asian Country to Arrest Putin
Mongolia must detain Russian President Vladimir Putin because it is a member of the International Criminal Court (ICC), a spokesman for the Hague-based body has said.
Putin is scheduled to visit Russia’s neighbor on Monday, to mark the 85th anniversary of a major World War II battle. This would theoretically put him at risk of arrest on the ICC’s “war crimes” warrant, as Ulaanbaatar recognizes the court’s jurisdiction.
All states that signed the Rome Statute “have the obligation to cooperate in accordance with Chapter IX,” ICC spokesman Fadi el-Abdallah told the BBC on Friday. The Rome Statute is an international treaty that set up the court, which Mongolia ratified in 2002.
“In case of non-cooperation, ICC judges may make a finding to that effect and inform the Assembly of States Parties of it. It is then for the Assembly to take any measure it deems appropriate,” el-Abdallah said.
The Rome Statute provides for exemptions when arresting someone would “breach a treaty obligation” with another country or violate the “diplomatic immunity of a person or property of a third state.”
Ukraine has also filed an official demand with Mongolia to arrest Putin, according to the government in Kiev.
Moscow “has no concerns” about the ICC warrant, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters earlier on Friday, noting that all possible issues concerning Putin’s visit have been “worked out separately” in advance.
The ICC issued a warrant for Putin’s arrest in March 2023, accusing the Russian president of “unlawful deportation of population (children)” and “unlawful transfer of population (children) from occupied areas of Ukraine to the Russian Federation.”
Moscow has rejected the claims as ridiculous, noting that the evacuation of civilians from combat zones was not a crime. Moreover, neither Russia nor Ukraine is party to the Rome Statute, meaning that the ICC has no jurisdiction in the matter.
Putin is expected to attend a ceremony commemorating the 1939 Battle of Khalkhin Gol. The decisive victory of the Red Army and its Mongolian allies over the Imperial Japanese Army secured the Soviet Union’s eastern flank until 1945.
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