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SAO PAULO (AP) — Elon Musk’s satellite-based internet service provider Starlink backtracked Tuesday and said it will comply with a Brazilian Supreme Court justice’s order to block the billionaire’s social media platform, X.

Starlink said in a statement posted on X that it will heed Justice Alexandre de Moraes’ order despite him having frozen the company’s assets. Previously, it informally told the telecommunications regulator that it would not comply until de Moraes reversed course.

“Regardless of the illegal treatment of Starlink in freezing our assets, we are complying with the order to block access to X in Brazil,” the company statement said. “We continue to pursue all legal avenues, as are others who agree that @alexandre’s recent order violate the Brazilian constitution.”

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[-] Yeller_king@reddthat.com 45 points 2 months ago

They can think it violates the Brazilian constitution all they like, my understanding is that the supreme court already weighed in on the issue and that's the only opinion that matters in most countries.

[-] blaine@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

What a braindead take.

You've never heard of biased, politically motivated supreme court justices? That's... hard to believe. You should Google "Roe v Wade" and then check back. How can two different versions of a supreme court rule completely differently on the same issue if the underlying constitution hasn't changed?

Read the relevant parts of their constitution, then check the supreme courts decision, and let me know how you think it makes sense.

[-] Pete_topkevinbottom@lemmy.world 29 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

What a braindead take

I love when people call out their own stupidity at the top of their comments

[-] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 24 points 2 months ago

You've never heard of biased, politically motivated supreme court justices?

And the solution is a billionaire and his vanity project flagrantly ignoring the Supreme Court?

[-] Yeller_king@reddthat.com 12 points 2 months ago

Alright. What is starlink's legal path to overturn the decision? Whether the decision makes sense or not doesn't change what the decision was.

[-] irotsoma@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Point isn't whether it's right or not. The point is that once the supreme court rules, there's no "higher" court to take it to. The lower courts can't rule differently on something explicitly ruled on already, and they can't "overrule" the supreme court since they are explicitly "under" them. So regardless of what Starlink says, they aren't going to change that, at least not any time soon. And X will either be dead, irrelevant, or significantly modified by the time the court changes enough to get them to change their decision.

[-] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

I'm not fully in the loop, but wasn't it just 1 judge and could be challenged to all of them, but then all of them sided with the 1?

[-] CurlyWurlies4All@slrpnk.net 6 points 2 months ago

The issue is when you refuse to engage in the legal process at all you lose the right to find compromise. It's the same reason Alex Jones was defaulted.

[-] zbyte64@awful.systems 6 points 2 months ago

People keep telling me to go into research but none of them are willing to pay for my time

[-] madjo@feddit.nl 2 points 2 months ago

If musk and X wanted to argue that in court, they could've appointed legal representation in Brazil. Instead, ol' musky closed down the Brazil offices of X, like the braindead weirdo that he is.

As we say in my country, the person who burns his own butt, has to sit on the blisters.

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