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A Brazilian Supreme Court justice on Friday seized about $3 million from bank accounts belonging to social media platform X and satellite-based internet service provider Starlink, both companies controlled by tech billionaire Elon Musk.

The move by Justice Alexandre de Moraes was aimed at collecting funds that are equivalent to the amount that X owes to the country in fines. The bank accounts of the two companies have since been unfrozen.

Legal analysts have questioned de Moraes’ prior decision to freeze Starlink’s bank account to pay for cases related to X. While Musk owns both X and SpaceX, which operates Starlink, the two companies are separate entities.

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[-] Phen@lemmy.eco.br 54 points 2 months ago

About the claims that X and Starlink are separate entities and one shouldn't be affected by the other: it has since been revealed that it was Starlink who paid the salaries of X's employees.

[-] Nighed@sffa.community 2 points 2 months ago

Have you got a link for that?

[-] Phen@lemmy.eco.br 20 points 2 months ago

Getting hard to find it now with so many other news about the whole thing, but I found this one that kinda brushes over it: https://agendadopoder.com.br/x-demite-funcionarios-do-brasil-e-nao-paga-fgts-alegando-bloqueio-de-contas-da-starlink/

[-] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 46 points 2 months ago

Courts are supposed to seize assets, especially when the defendant is a notorious deadbeat.

[-] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Wait, Leon made this whole hullabaloo was over $3M?

[-] Phen@lemmy.eco.br 10 points 2 months ago

It only got to $3M because the fine increased daily. It started at zero and all he needed to do was follow the court's orders to suspend accounts from users that were breaking the law.

[-] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

That's the fine.
The original issue was not taking down illegal content in X even though there was a court order and a fine to do so, and withdrawing their legal representation from the country when they were expected to legally represent the company (i.e take responsibility for X breaking the law). Brazil requires companies to have that in order to operate, so X got blocked, and now the fine has been taken for their assets.

[-] sugartits@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Classic Leon

[-] Bonesince1997@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

Ride em cowboy!

[-] j4k3@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Who wants to bet that a Boeing negotiator will get sent to handle the issue.

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