The ongoing absurdity between Brazil and X (Twitter) made me wonder, can’t Brazil just block X domains? Why is it dependent on X doing it from their end?
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Brazil ordered the internet providers to block Twitter, but the internet service provider Starlink (SpaceX) refused to comply with the order.
Also Brazil decided to treat SpaceX as being in an economic group with Twitter and froze their assets to pay the fine Twitter got.
>Article 33 of the Brazilian Competition Law (Law No. 12.529/11) stipulates that: “companies or entities that are part of an economic group, in fact or in law, will be jointly and severally liable, when at least one of them practices a violation to the economic order”.
Twitter and SpaceX are generally seen as separate entities, but according to Brazilian law they are both part of the same economic group in practice. And the special treatment Twitter got from Starlink pretty much shows that they are.
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