Starlink

Starlink, the satellite company controlled by SpaceX CEO and X owner Elon Musk, said it was complying with a Brazilian court order to block social media platform X in the country.
In a Sept. 3 X post, Starlink <a data-ct-non-breakable="null" href="https://x.com/Starlink/status/1831053118265843722" rel="null" target="null" text="null">claimed</a> that a court ruling suspending X in Brazil was “illegal,” explicitly targeting Alexandre de Moraes, one of the country’s Supreme Court justices. On Aug. 30, Moraes ordered X suspended in Brazil after Musk refused to name a legal representative for the firm’s operations in the country — a decision later <a data-ct-non-breakable="null" href="https://cointelegraph.com/news/brazil-supreme-court-judge-suspend-elon-musk" rel="null" target="null" text="null">upheld by a panel</a> of five Justices.&nbsp;
“Regardless of the illegal treatment of Starlink in freezing of our assets, we are complying with the order to block access to X in Brazil,” said Starlink. “We continue to pursue all legal avenues, as are others who agree that [Moraes’] recent orders violate the Brazilian constitution.”
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Starlink said it had already started legal proceedings opposing the court order that also <a data-ct-non-breakable="null" href="https://cointelegraph.com/news/brazil-supreme-court-bans-twitter-elon-musk" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" text="null">froze its assets</a> in Brazil.&nbsp;
The court order stemmed from an investigation spearheaded by Moraes into alleged misinformation propagated on X around former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro. According to the justice, X could remain suspended in Brazil until the social media firm pays more than $3 million in fines.
Many X users criticized the decision on social media as an overreach of authority and an attempt to suppress Brazilians’ freedom of expression. Though many Brazil-based X users reported they could access the platform using virtual private networks (VPNs), Moraes’ order also imposed fines of up to 50,000 reais — roughly $8,900 at the time of publication — for circumventing the lockout.
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Starlink confirms it will block access to X in Brazil

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