Brazil's supreme court announced that it ordered funds be moved from Starlink and X bank accounts to pay for fines levied against Elon Musk's social network.
  • 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.
  • The PantserEnglish
    123·
    2 years ago

    As it should be. Be a dick and not pay your fines the government will garnish your wages, just like the peasants. Billionaire gets no special treatment.

      • grueEnglish
        131·
        2 years ago

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        • sensiblepuffinEnglish
          7·
          2 years ago

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  • NOT_RICKEnglish
    1058·
    2 years 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

    • naonintendois@programming.devEnglish
      55·
      2 years 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.

      • NOT_RICKEnglish
        1122·
        2 years ago

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

        • ZorqueEnglish
          273·
          2 years ago

          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.

          • NOT_RICKEnglish
            134·
            2 years 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

    • Honytawk@lemmy.zipEnglish
      13·
      2 years ago

      Owned by the same person. So you hit the same person.

      All of it could have been avoided if that same person paid their fines instead of playing the crying rich baby.

      • NOT_RICKEnglish
        73·
        2 years ago

        He only owns part of both which is why I think it’s messy. Then again if you are shareholder in one of his companies I guess you get what you deserve

        • JimmyeatsausageEnglish
          4·
          2 years ago

          Societal consequences obviously don’t motivate much of the investor class, but financial ones do.

    • b161@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      101·
      2 years ago

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

    • cheese_greaterEnglish
      101·
      2 years ago

      Its important to pierce that veil, thats how ya get off