"Brazil has made headway blocking X on the main internet providers, but our telemetry indicates there's a long tail of local and regional ISPs where the service is still available," says Isik Mater, director of research at the internet censorship analysis group NetBlocks.
"However, the block was not implemented by all ISPs in Brazil, nor was it implemented in the same way. This suggests lack of coordination between providers, and that each ISP implemented the block autonomously," the group wrote.
Around 40 percent are tiny regional providers with 5,000 customers or fewer. The human and digital rights watchdog Freedom House rates Brazil's internet freedom as partly free and trending to be more restricted.
"With Brazil's population of 215 million people, a mature democracy, a sprawling land mass, and more than 20,000 internet service providers, it isn't straightforward to block a web platform in the South American nation."
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