Starlink Officials Block X Following Brazilian Supreme Court Order

Musk also owns X and SpaceX, Starlink’s parent company.

The blocking of X on Starlink’s website allows Starlink to maintain its license in Brazil while the social network’s lawyers continue to seek a resolution to the matter in Brazilian courts.

“Following last week’s order… which froze Starlink’s finances and prevented Starlink from conducting financial transactions in Brazil, we immediately initiated legal proceedings in the Brazilian Supreme Court, explaining the flagrant illegality of this order and asking the court to unfreeze our assets,” Starlink representatives said in a post on X Tuesday.

“Regardless of the illegal treatment of Starlink by freezing our assets, we are complying with the order to block access to X in Brazil,” Starlink representatives added.

On Monday, a five-judge panel unanimously upheld a nationwide federal ban on X, announced on Saturday, due to the social media platform’s lack of an appointed legal representative in Brazil.

The freezing of Company X’s assets in Brazil is intended to help it pay $3 million in fines imposed by the courts, according to the opinion of five judges.

X is used by approximately 40 million of Brazil’s 215 million citizens, with monthly users exceeding 550 million.

There are about 250,000 Starlink subscribers in Brazil, and the network is popular among rural residents and indigenous tribes in the Amazon basin.