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

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Should 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 generally known as Twitter — after proprietor Elon Musk didn’t adjust to the decide’s order to take away accounts from the platform that had been breaking Brazilian regulation. Musk has declared Moraes an “evil dictator cosplaying as a decide” and intends to proceed his struggle totally free speech.

Many have advised 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 is just not trying well worth the threat for many Brazilians.

Paulo Costa is without doubt 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 huge fantastic. In a single submit, he wrote, “Bye MY EVERYONE, I can’t pay 8,000 $. Day by day to be right here.”

Try all the Brazilian’s response Tweets beneath:

Now, I’m not a lawyer. My Portuguese is worse than Mike Goldberg’s. I don’t declare to know the total extent of this ruling, however I’ve some ideas on potential workarounds. Can an athlete like Costa fireplace up some Tweets whereas in a foreign country in Las Vegas for a struggle? May he rent a US-based social media supervisor or perhaps a coaching accomplice, then textual content that particular person 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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