Brazil's supreme court announced that it ordered funds be moved from Starlink and X bank accounts to pay for fines levied against Elon Musk's social network.
  • Brazil’s supreme court said Friday that it ordered funds to be moved from Starlink and X bank accounts to pay fines levied against Elon Musk’s social media venture.
  • Following the transfers, the court ordered that the seized bank accounts and assets of X and Starlink be unfrozen, saying there was no longer any need to keep them.
  • The use of X has been suspended in Brazil since late August.
  • naonintendois@programming.devEnglish
    55·
    5 days ago

    All ISPs were required to block Twitter/X. Starlink was the only one that didn’t. They didn’t charge SpaceX because it belonged to Musk but because they violated the court order.

    • NOT_RICK@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1122·
      5 days ago

      If that’s the case the first bullet point is pretty misleading. Don’t see a problem with a fine in that case

      • Zorque@lemmy.worldEnglish
        273·
        5 days ago

        Sure, if only look at that one thing and go to zero lengths to understand context.

        Things aren’t misleading just because you want every detail spooned to you.

        • NOT_RICK@lemmy.worldEnglish
          134·
          5 days ago

          There is nothing in this story that makes it clear that the fines were levied against SpaceX for refusing to block X. That is a lack of context