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Will X/Twitter be banned in Brazil tomorrow?
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resolved Aug 30
Resolved
NO

Today (August 28, 2024), X.com was threatened with a legal threat to summon Elon Musk and/or ban X in Brazil within 24 hours. See https://x.com/xDaily/status/1828961812814934470

Resolves YES if X is banned or firewalled in Brazil by end-of-day on August 29, 2024 in UTC-5 (the westernmost timezone of Brazil). Resolves NO otherwise.

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@Stralor it's still 6PM in UTC-5, there's still time for this to resolve YES

@the_coproduct 6pm on the 30th. This market was for the 29th, yesterday.

@MugaSofer Ah, fair enough. Got confused.

@the_coproduct all good :)

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Yeah, seems like they just made the announcement, which is clearly over the deadline right? https://twitter.com/RawsGlobal/status/1829613799705338335?t=1AmLmoJj3V992smVpfOXGg&s=19

@MugaSofer @TallUntidyGothGF Both sources are past the deadline, so I'm thinking this'll be a NO. But I'll leave it to the mods.

should be closed by now, shouldn't it?

@BayesianTom I... actually don't know how to resolve this properly (it's not like I can fly to Brazil today or something), so I'll leave this up to the mods instead.

I'll close this now fwiw

@duck_master anecdotally, it's still working for me (I live in Brazil)

@duck_master but if you don't trust that I'd recommend just waiting until tomorrow and checking news sources to see if it came into effect

@duck_master I don't think we should treat the mods as an all-purpose research/fact-finding team. Separately, I don't think there's anyone who would reasonably object to resolving this market NO at this point (as evidenced by the market sitting at 1%). There's no report of X being inaccessible, and several reports still coming out of X "bracing" for the upcoming ban.

@the_coproduct thanks for pointing this out! The related market closes on Aug 31, which is a whole day later, so this market should be lower.

bought Ṁ50 NO

dont mind me using this arbitrage opportunity

The whole reason I posted it is so people can arbitrage, enjoy your free mana