It is a powerful scare tactix but I believe the main point is to scare large Brazilian accounts, like influencers, politicians, jornalists, etc to not post on X bc their identity is known and if they keep posting then it must mean they are using a VPN...

I suppose the hope is that if those people flee the platform to threads, bluesky, facebook, etc, then most Brazilians will too.

Curiously, the fact that dictator Moraes ordered people be fined 9K a day for using a VPN to use X, is proof that it has nothing to do with X, but that rather the goal is to control what the Brazilian people can and can't see. Truly scary times.