Use tor to access X (Twitter) in Brazil

Hi all

I’m going to a business trip to Brazil on next week, I’m part of a group and I’m responsible of media coverage and social media coverage ( so i have to use it to do my job)

The question is: can i use tor during my staying in Brazil?
Or this will not work?

What can i use to X during my stay there ?

Appreciate your help!

Twitter had an onion mirror in the past. I don’t know how things are now.

The lunatic judges are saying they’ll fine anyone who uses a VPN to circumvent the ban, presumably that includes Tor. They’d have a very difficult time enforcing that, but do so at your own risk.

I’m assuming using a VPN and maybe a TOR browser would help you be anonymous as allow you to access Twitter.

Yes, you can use without concerns. Even the major newspapers with left leaning editorials are publishing on x.

I’m not fully sure, but if that X account was not created in the brazillian servers, using a censorship circumventing software should not result in a fine.

There is no practical way for the government to surveil twitter requests inside a Tor or VPN tunneling infrastructure. Other than that, they would need to directly access X servers to monitor brazil users requests to the server.

That onion mirror still exists but has become unusable. They let the certificate expire back in 2023, and if you choose to proceed anyway, then currently you are redirected to the clear web x.com. See also Twitter just let its privacy- and security-protecting Tor service expire | The Verge

Unless X has set up a new one, which seems unlikely, there’s no full Tor solution.

I’m part of foreign delegate that visiting a health congress there. So my company don’t have other way.

From what i understand, foreigners will be fine just by using VPN.

I just want to be sure.

They can still track you even if you enter Twitter’s onion website?

Thank you :folded_hands:t2:

Adding to your answer, i was reading several answer here on Reddit and other sites, they say you can use X in Brazil totally normal with VPN as long as you don’t post anything.

Twitter/X has stopped maintaining their onion mirror, it doesn’t work anymore. But it was never necessary in the first place, you can just go to the regular website over Tor.

Tor will hide that you’re visiting Twitter/X from your ISP and any other network observers and conceal your IP address from Twitter/X, but that’s not complete protection. It’s still important to know you’re taking a risk by doing something that law enforcement is threatening to punish, unjustified as it may be. For example lets say you log into your account and post something. Is that account already known to belong to a Brazilian citizen? Well, you must have used a VPN/Tor to circumvent the block then, no need to have tracked your traffic directly.