Elon Musk's Starlink will comply with the Brazil X ban after all
www.engadget.com
Starlink told Brazil's telecom agency it won't comply with an order to block X in the country until officials unfreeze its local bank accounts.
          • This is fine🔥🐶☕🔥English
            1•4 months ago

            You expect me to read the article‽😳

            Anyway, I seemed to miss that and this is just Elon being a petulant manchild. But Starlink management has decided to comply with blocking Xitter as of today.

    • @stupidcaseyEnglish
      0•4 months ago

      He is in a unique position, theoretically he can make everything go through the country his servers are in assuming they pay over their own satellite internet, illegal… mmm almost certainly but so is keeping Ex Twitter on in Brazil so he probably doesn’t care about that, and it’s essentially exactly what a VPN does sooo, oh yeah they could also just use a VPN I guess.

      • This is fine🔥🐶☕🔥English
        4•4 months ago

        Bruh, VPN for what? If Brazil bans payments to Starlink, essentially sanctioning it, how is end user going to circumvent that?

        I mean they can jump through hoops to convert currencies etc but most people would just give up and move on.

        • @linearchaosEnglish
          -3•4 months ago

          Paying with Bitcoin is less of a hoop to jump through than it used to be.

          • @[email protected]English
            1•4 months ago

            But still far to much of a hassle for the general public. Hell, half the people I know refuse to figure out a regular e-transfer/cash app. There’s no way they’ll even consider bitcoin; or really any other currency.