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Brazil’s supreme court upholds ban on Elon Musk’s X over ‘illegal conduct’ (www.theguardian.com)

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Members of Brazil’s supreme court have unanimously voted to uphold the ban on X, after Elon Musk’s refusal to comply with local laws led to the social network being blocked in one of its biggest markets.

On Monday, five of the court’s justices were asked to consider Friday’s decision to temporarily banish X from Brazil, where the platform has more than 21 million users. By lunchtime all five had voted in favour of the ban.

Casting his vote in favour of X’s continued suspension, Flávio Dino said the company’s decision to “deliberately” ignore a court order to name a legal representative in Brazil suggested it “considered itself above the rule of law”.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Not gonna lie my inner child would be delighted to see Brazil shooting down Starlink satellites.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

they don't need to, they just need to seize the ground PoPs and block ips to make it unusably slow.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

I thought StarLink had inter-satelite laser links? Theoretically it should be faster than a VPN out of the country because light travels faster in a vacuum. But maybe this was another one of Elon's "full self driving next year!" features.