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Twitter/X migrated to Cloudflare, bypassing Brazilian block

by fabioyy on 9/18/24, 4:32 PM with 79 comments

• by jrflowers on 9/19/24, 1:12 AM

  Looks like Cloudflare has already agreed to block Twitter in Brazil.

  https://noticias.uol.com.br/colunas/andreza-matais/2024/09/1...

• by tuyuri on 9/18/24, 6:25 PM

  When the block became effective, I asked how much it would cost to migrate to Cloudflare. It appears that it wasn’t that expensive, haha.

  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41406367

• by vfclists on 9/18/24, 6:57 PM

  The real question is whether is whether it is right for the judges of a country to block access to a service that the countries depend on.

  For instance in the UK the government can stop local media from publishing news that is considered libellous or defamatory, or may unjustly influence court cases, but they can't stop citizens from accessing that information if it is published in a news outlet outside the country.

  No one is questioning why the Brazilian judiciary should have that power. It seems rather excessive and an infringement of Brazilians rights, though that is not surprising when we live in a era when governments have taking upon themselves to decide what their citizens rights are, when human rights are supposed to be intrinsic, ie those that all fauna on the planet do.

• by more_corn on 9/18/24, 5:07 PM

  In tomorrow’s news, Cloudflare blocked by Brazil.

• by goofed on 9/18/24, 10:13 PM

  Why Elon didn't use the same strategy with China?

• by KomoD on 9/18/24, 5:07 PM

  Looks like they only use it in Brazil, everywhere else seems to resolve to regular Twitter IPs

• by ChrisArchitect on 9/18/24, 6:55 PM

  Migrated...what.. to Cloudflare?

• by CLiED on 9/18/24, 10:18 PM

  I dunno, still down to me.

• by pjmlp on 9/18/24, 6:20 PM

  Good luck fighting countries, if Brazil is serious about this, it will be blocked again.

• by diegoholiveira on 9/18/24, 4:51 PM

  It's really interesting that CloudFlare accepted X (Twitter) as a client knowing the fights Musk gets into.