Welcome to the Tech Meme Right Home for Tuesday, September 3rd, 2024. I'm Brian McCullough today.

We missed a pretty big story this weekend.

X getting banned in Brazil. I'll try to catch you up on all the contours of

that. Canva's raising prices and it's pissing people off because I mean they're

really raising prices and the two pretty big success stories in crypto this year that we haven't spoken about yet.

Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.

Hey, so the big story we missed over the weekend was that the country of Brazil blocked X, formerly known as Twitter following an order from Brazilian Supreme Court Justice

Alexandra de Moraeus after Elon Musk refused to name a legal

representative in that country.

Originally the order from the judge required Apple and Google to prevent downloads of

VPN apps in Brazil in order to make sure no one could access X in Brazil.

The part of that order has been amended so that now VPNs are still allowed.

But what has not changed is that anyone using a VPN to Access X faces the equivalent of $9,000 a day in fines.

Blue Sky has reported a record spike in usage as many X users in Brazil moved to Blue Sky

and threads as an alternative.

Brazil, by the way, is X's fifth largest international market with more than 20 million

users.

Starlink, which has 250,000 customers in Brazil, told Brazil's telecom agency that it would not comply

with orders to block X on that service, which I'm noting because, quoting the times,

that's move illustrates the sheer power of Mr. Musk and his business empire

having built or bought leading companies with increasing control over how people connect and

communicate.

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