[gaius_baltar]

Brazil had a similar thing a few weeks ago, but it got drowned in the news because if was related to the Twitter/X block.

While the block itself may be legitimate, as the motivation was the refusal from X from deleting a few tweets doxxing a police investigator and his family members, the whole process was done in a few little short of a full blown dictatorship: one of the points of the court order demanded Google and Apple to remove all VPN apps from their stores, and some legal experts interpreted that as also ordering removal from the phones themselves. The justice that sent the order backtracked it later, but it was possible and the order was standing during that time.

The VPN issue got relatively little discussion on the press and too many people were too quick to equate criticism of the overly broad court order with defense of Twitter and Musk, so the well was poisoned from the start.