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.
    • stupidcasey@lemmy.worldEnglish
      33·
      2 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🔥🐶☕🔥@lemmy.worldEnglish
        62·
        2 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.

          • Darkassassin07@lemmy.caEnglish
            1·
            2 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.