‘Tearful’ Paulo Costa reacts to Brazilian Twitter/X ban: ‘I will not pay!’

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When you see fewer of your favourite Brazilian MMA fighters on this column within the coming weeks, know that it’s not by my selection. On Friday (Aug. 30, 2024), a Brazilian Supreme Court docket Decide, Alexandre de Moraes, formally blocked X — the social media platform previously often called Twitter — after proprietor Elon Musk did not adjust to the decide’s order to take away accounts from the platform that had been breaking Brazilian legislation. Musk has declared Moraes an “evil dictator cosplaying as a decide” and intends to proceed his combat totally free speech.

Many have instructed utilizing a Digital Non-public Community (VPN) to get across the banning, however Decide Moraes has instituted a harsh penalty of $8,874 per day for any Brazilians caught utilizing that workaround. Protected to say, X will not be wanting definitely worth the threat for many Brazilians.

Paulo Costa is likely one of the most energetic Brazilian UFC fighters on Twitter, well-known for his foolish juice memes and goofy antics like stealing Merab Dvalishvili’s meals from the UFC Efficiency Institute (PI). Social media has been an enormous boon in rising Costa’s fanbase, however the Brazilian made it clear he’ll NOT be risking that large nice. In a single put up, he wrote, “Bye MY EVERYONE, I cannot pay 8,000 $. Day by day to be right here.”

Take a look at all the Brazilian’s response Tweets under:

Now, I’m not a lawyer. My Portuguese is worse than Mike Goldberg’s. I don’t declare to grasp the complete extent of this ruling, however I’ve some ideas on potential workarounds. Can an athlete like Costa hearth up some Tweets whereas in another country in Las Vegas for a combat? Might he rent a US-based social media supervisor or perhaps a coaching companion, then textual content that individual his numerous ideas to be posted on-line? Can he nonetheless promote his account, which has 640k followers and certainly carries some financial worth?

A technique or one other, the MMA social media panorama might change fairly a bit within the coming days.

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