Starlink Refuses To Comply With Brazil's Supreme Court Justices' Order To Block Access To X

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JAKARTA - After the Brazilian Supreme Court ordered internet service providers to cut off access to platform X, local residents wishing to access X required a VPN or Starlink satellite, despite the risk of a large fine for those using it.

However, as a satellite-based internet service provider with 250 thousand users in Brazil, it reportedly refused to comply with the order.

Based on a report from The New York Times, on Sunday, September 1, the company owned by Elon Musk told Brazilian telecommunications agencies it would not comply with orders to block X.

In the end, Alexandre de Moraes as the judge of the Brazilian Supreme Court who led the action against X, frozen Starlink's assets in Brazil last week, and blocked all transactions to the service in his country.

This was done because the government tried to collect a fine of more than three million US dollars (Rp46 billion) from X for ignoring the Supreme Court's order to suspend several accounts that spread false information and hate speech.

At that time, Musk, who previously closed X's office in Brazil to maintain the operation of the platform in the country, condemned the decision as a form of unfair censorship.

"They closed the number one source of truth in Brazil," Musk wrote in a post on X on Friday.