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

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For those who 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 Choose, Alexandre de Moraes, formally blocked X — the social media platform previously referred to as Twitter — after proprietor Elon Musk didn’t adjust to the choose’s order to take away accounts from the platform that have been breaking Brazilian regulation. Musk has declared Moraes an “evil dictator cosplaying as a choose” and intends to proceed his combat totally free speech.

Many have prompt utilizing a Digital Personal Community (VPN) to get across the banning, however Choose Moraes has instituted a harsh penalty of $8,874 per day for any Brazilians caught utilizing that workaround. Protected to say, X isn’t trying definitely worth the danger for many Brazilians.

Paulo Costa is likely one of the most energetic Brazilian UFC fighters on Twitter, well-known for his silly 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 wonderful. In a single put up, he wrote, “Bye MY EVERYONE, I cannot pay 8,000 $. Each day to be right here.”

Take a look at the entire Brazilian’s response Tweets beneath:

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 overseas in Las Vegas for a combat? May he rent a US-based social media supervisor or perhaps a coaching associate, then textual content that particular person his varied ideas to be posted on-line? Can he nonetheless promote his account, which has 640k followers and absolutely carries some financial worth?

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

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