(Reuters) – Elon Musk’s satellite broadband business, Starlink, on Tuesday stated that it is adhering to Brazil’s leading court judge Alexandre de Moraes’ order to obstruct accessibility to social networks system X in the nation.
In a blog post on X, Starlink stated it had actually started lawful process in the Brazilian Supreme Court describing the “gross illegality” of Moraes’ order, that iced up Starlink’s financial resources and stops it from performing monetary deals in Brazil.
“Regardless of the illegal treatment of Starlink in freezing of our assets, we are complying with the order to block access to X in Brazil,” the X blog post stated.
Starlink included that it remains to go after all lawful methods, as are others that concur that the court’s “recent orders violate the Brazilian constitution.”
Starlink carried Monday declined to follow Moraes’ order for all web companies to obstruct residential accessibility to X.
Tensions in between Brazil and Musk’s organization realm ratcheted up even more as the nation’s telecommunications regulatory authority intimidated to permission Starlink after its leading court supported the debatable choice to outlaw social media network X from the nation.
(Reporting by Juby Babu in Mexico City; Editing by Maju Samuel)
