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Starlink is refusing to comply with Brazil's X ban (Update: Starlink will comply)
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this post was submitted on 02 Sep 2024
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They can easily make it illegal for them to operate there.
Welcome to the world where money has more power than laws and governments. It’ll all work out fine, I’m sure.
Yeah the Brazilian space police is gonna shoot down them satellites.
And then they will clean up the fueltas.
I love fairytales about competence in Brazil.
Like growing drugs? Good luck bro
Yeah they still rely on base stations to transmit/receive the signals.
It most probably can work directly with satellites, but I don't think some user is going to put the effort into setting up a direct system (∵ high cost), just to use the bloated site, X is (∵ low throughput internet).