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What starlink chooses to do will be most interesting, deny any connection, block X like the isps have been ordered and try and get their bank accounts reinstate
by theginger 2y ago
What starlink chooses to do will be most interesting, deny any connection, block X like the isps have been ordered and try and get their bank accounts reinstated.
Or pull out of Brazil on the ground and operate as a rogue isp whose money can be blocked, in the short term at least but not their service.
I hope it's the 2nd, be a lesson to all world leaders, and not just ultra authoritarian ones, that the Internet doesn't respect geographic boarder and you cannot control it like that.
- wtcactus 2y agoI’m guessing starlink is already (or soon will be) ilegal to sell in Brazil. So, assuming this judge won’t go as far as forcing people with starlink antennas to remove their existing installations, they will be the only ones able to use outside access. And that is an extremely low percentage of the population.
- viraptor 2y ago> that the Internet doesn't respect geographic boarder There's a tonne of regulations already applying to the internet. Yes you can control it like that and many countries do. Twitter already had flags for filtering content based on local laws. It's a cool overall idea, but no. It doesn't work like that in practice. Not for a person not very informed about traffic masking anyway.
- seydor 2y agoStarlink ceased operations in brazil and doesnt have a bank account. Musk tweeted that he will keep it for free in brazil because some remote schools use it.
- basementcat 2y agoStarlink cannot really operate as a "rogue ISP"; they have to license radio spectrum from Brazil and they have to share lawfully intercepted communications with Law Enforcement.