After months of public dispute, the Minister of the Brazilian Supreme Federal Court, Alexandre de Moraes, finally issued a suspension order for X (formerly known as Twitter) late on Friday, August 30.
As usually happens in such instances, people in Brazil have flocked to the best VPN services to bypass the geo-restrictions and keep accessing X. This spike in VPN usage is quite significant, however, as it comes despite the government threatening users in the country with huge fines — up to nearly $9,000 a day — to bypass the restriction.
