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Starlink tells Brazil regulator it will not comply with X suspension (www.reuters.com)

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Elon Musk-controlled satellite internet provider Starlink has told Brazil's telecom regulator Anatel it will not comply with a court order to block social media platform X in the country until its local accounts are unfrozen.

Anatel confirmed the information to Reuters on Monday after its head Carlos Baigorri told Globo TV it had received a note from Starlink, which has more than 200,000 customers in Brazil, and passed it onto Brazil's top court.

Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes last week ordered all telecom providers in the country to shut down X, which is also owned by billionaire Musk, for lacking a legal representative in Brazil.

The move also led to the freezing of Starlink's bank accounts in Brazil. Starlink is a unit of Musk-led rocket company SpaceX. The billionaire responded to the account block by calling Moraes a "dictator."

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[-] NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 48 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Putting up tens of thousands of extra objects into orbit that we now have to track and worry about collisions with other satellites is not a good thing.

[-] Enkers@sh.itjust.works 17 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Not to mention that their orbits degrades over time so they have to be continually replenished. ~~That comes at a huge cost which is highly subsidized by US tax payers.~~

[-] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 26 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

That comes at a huge cost which is highly subsidized by US tax payers.

Hang on. Which subsidy are you saying Starlink is getting that is highly subsidized by US taxpayers? Starlink got rejected for the $900m broadband subsidy.

Note for clarity: Musk is an asshat.

[-] Enkers@sh.itjust.works 19 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

That was indeed what I was thinking of. I didn't realize it was rejected. My bad, and thanks for the letting me know!

[-] BakerBagel@midwest.social 1 points 2 months ago

The rockets that launch those satellites were developed using tax dollars.

[-] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

The rockets that launch those satellites were developed using tax dollars.

Are you referring to the NASA contracts for Dragon cargo delivery flights to the ISS?

[-] De_Narm@lemmy.world 16 points 2 months ago

Also, each satelite that burns up upon re-entry isn't just gone - it still introduces vaporized materials into the upper atmosphere.

Iirc they are harming the ozone layer.

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