They simply blocked the whole of X in the whole of Brazil. They made it a crime to circumvent the block, so of course you could still access it with a VPN, as l

They simply blocked the whole of X in the whole of Brazil. They made it a crime to circumvent the block, so of course you could still access it with a VPN, as long as you didn't log into any account tied to your presence in Brazil, making it useless for politicians and the like. They didn't need to "use another business as leverage."