from RT:
The South African billionaire’s social media platform X is on the brink of being taken down in the Latin American country
Elon Musk’s Starlink has announced that Brazil’s top judge has ordered the company’s financial accounts in the country to be blocked, amid an ongoing feud over the social media platform X.
Starlink, Musk’s satellite internet operator, said on Thursday it had received an order from Brazil’s Supreme Court judge Alexandre de Moraes that “freezes Starlink’s finances and prevents Starlink from conducting financial transactions” in the country.
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The court’s decision to sanction Starlink is a response to the lack of legal representatives in Brazil for X (formerly Twitter), a court source told Reuters.
De Moraes issued an order on Wednesday urging Musk to appoint the company’s new legal representative for X in Brazil within 24 hours or face its suspension in Latin America’s largest country.
Musk has slammed the move, claiming the platform is being punished for resisting censorship. The billionaire, who took control of Twitter in October 2022 and subsequently rebranded it as X, blasted de Moraes for “improperly punishing other shareholders and the people of Brazil.”
“SpaceX and X are two completely different companies with different shareholders. I own about 40% of SpaceX, so this [is an] absolutely illegal action by the dictator,” Musk wrote on his social media platform.
