What i love about musk is that he is the best bad example. Maybe someday he'll start a war with some country and then people will start to understand that no single person or group should hold this much power. Because there are also a handful of other people and groups with the same resources who choose to hide in the background.
The Corporate Wars. 🥲
Remember that time Musk expressed that he was in favor of free speech? Then he censored content on his platform for the Turkish government?
Brazil has an extradition agreement with the United States. Would love to see that shit get put to use.
Sounds like they're likely also to find themselves in legal trouble
At least one can hope
On one hand, fuck Musk. On the other hand, internet from space that can't be blocked by governments is a net positive in my book.
How about internet that can be blocked at the whims of a billionaire? At least government is supposed to answer to the people.
Don't forget that Musk is also the one who intentionally blocked paid service from Ukraine during a critical moment in the early days of Russia's current genocide, because Musk sucks up to Putin. Dude needs to answer for his actions.
Yep, fuck Musk
Fuck Musk
Sounds like a French parfum.
Oh? What about internet controlled by a billionaire who makes sure his toxic website featuring his version of “free speech” is always available to protect his profits and spread his bullshit while undermining the policies of a sovereign state?
So much better than the evil government.
Not blockable by any government would be a positive in my book if it didn't imply bloclable by a single billionaire with huge mood swing. Don't forget how musk switched off starlink in Crimea at Putin's request when the Russian realized starlink guided missile were heading towards their ships (Source
that depends on who controls the space internet
How is a billionaire manchild in charge any better, at least a government is accountable to the people.
Controlled by governments or controlled by corpos and the super rich? I say there's hardly an improvement.
As of 2024-09-03T22:10:25.545Z, Starlink is now complying with Brazil's X ban [1].
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“We immediately initiated legal proceedings in the Brazilian Supreme Court explaining the gross illegality of this order and asking the Court to unfreeze our assets,” Starlink says in a post on X. “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.”
They should kick his shit out of the country
Can't really do that when his shit is quite literally in space floating above your country in orbit.
They can easily make it illegal for them to operate there.
Welcome to the world where money has more power than laws and governments. It’ll all work out fine, I’m sure.
how are people supposed to pay starlink if their accounts are frozen? is starlink offering free internet?
As the article says, yes.
Supposedly Starlink is maintaining service for existing accounts, even if they can't bill them ATM.
Somehow I don't think that'll last all that long.
just pull their business licence and any government grants then and let the world follow suit.
Logically, now they have to ban Starlink too.
Seems like it's on the table
Tensions between Brazil and Elon Musk's business empire ratcheted up further as the country's telecoms regulator threatened to sanction his satellite broadband company Starlink hours after its top court stood behind a controversial decision to ban social network X from the country.
A senior official at telecommunications regulator Anatel said sanctions against Starlink for noncompliance could include the revocation of its license to operate in Brazil.
Gonna be funny when Brazil bans starlink too.
**Update, September 3, 5:15PM ET: **Starlink has reversed course on its decision to not comply with Brazil’s block of X.
Usually Gwen Shotwell, SpaceX COO, is good at keeping Elon in check and not screwing up SpaceX business. I wonder what happened this time.
This statement was later retracted. The Engadget article was redacted accordingly.
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