• 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.
  • NOT_RICK@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    As much as I loathe Elon, I don’t think it’s fair to fine SpaceX for something Twitter did. Now if they were fined because they refused to block Twitter that’s different

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      1 year 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.

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        1 year ago

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

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          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.

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            1 year 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

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      I think every cent from that Nazi’s companies should be seized and he should be dropped off somewhere far away from shore.