Starlink's financial assets frozen in Brazil
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Starlink's financial assets frozen in Brazil
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Re: Starlink's financial assets frozen in Brazil
#2Why do we care?
If Starlink/Twitter/X doesn’t want to do business in BR or comply with local laws, then they are bound to suffer consequences (losing audience or assets seized).
Re: Starlink's financial assets frozen in Brazil
#3Why do we care? If Starlink/Twitter/X doesn’t want to do business in BR or comply with local laws, then they are bound to suffer consequences (losing audience or assets seized).
Starlink and X are completely separate entities.
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#4Why do we care? If Starlink/Twitter/X doesn’t want to do business in BR or comply with local laws, then they are bound to suffer consequences (losing audience or assets seized).
Because it's fundamentally unreasonable to hold one company responsible for the actions of another on the basis of a common shareholder and executive? The rule of law (or at least the generally consistent appearance of it) is far preferable to the open rule of man in wantonly levelling attacks against everyone and everything associated with someone that a government official dislikes.
Re: Starlink's financial assets frozen in Brazil
#5Why do we care? If Starlink/Twitter/X doesn’t want to do business in BR or comply with local laws, then they are bound to suffer consequences (losing audience or assets seized).
Starlink does comply with local laws in BR and wants to do business there.
Plus this has repercussions for people in other countries that want to restrict freedom of speech and strong arm social media, and is watched by governments.
Plus this is just tech news, you can post 'why do we care' to pretty much any other story on the front page.
Re: Starlink's financial assets frozen in Brazil
#6Why do we care? If Starlink/Twitter/X doesn’t want to do business in BR or comply with local laws, then they are bound to suffer consequences (losing audience or assets seized).
Because it's fundamentally unreasonable to hold one company responsible for the actions of another on the basis of a common shareholder and executive? The rule of law (or at least the generally consistent appearance of it) is far preferable to the open rule of man in wantonly levelling attacks against everyone and everything associated with someone that a government official dislikes.
Yes. Legal insecurity.
Re: Starlink's financial assets frozen in Brazil
#7Why do we care? If Starlink/Twitter/X doesn’t want to do business in BR or comply with local laws, then they are bound to suffer consequences (losing audience or assets seized).
Starlink and X are completely separate entities.
They are both privately owned by a dude that reinstated accounts that make threats against members of Brazil’s supreme court(1) and then recently tried to reframe it as a petty squabble about posting by posting weird angry AI-generated memes about a judge (2).
It is unsurprising to see somebody that’s actively trying to push the envelope about a country’s sovereignty be hit with sanctions on their business operations inside said country.
1 https://apnews.com/article/brazil-musk-x-twitter-moraes-bef0...
2 https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/world/elon-musk-posts-ai-phot...
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#9Is there a source for this that isn't the Epoch Times?
Re: Starlink's financial assets frozen in Brazil
#10Why do we care? If Starlink/Twitter/X doesn’t want to do business in BR or comply with local laws, then they are bound to suffer consequences (losing audience or assets seized).
Starlink does comply with local laws in BR and wants to do business there. Plus this has repercussions for people in other countries that want to restrict freedom of speech and strong arm social media, and is watched by governments. Plus this is just tech news, you can post 'why do we care' to pretty much any other story on the front page.
> freedom of speech and strong arm social media
I also see a billionaire strong arming a sovereign nation to push their propaganda machine down their throat.