Elon Musk’s Starlink backs down, agrees to block X in Brazil

A Starlink satellite Internet system is set up on a miners boat on the Madeira River in Porto Velho, Rondonia state, Brazil. Starlink has about 225,000 broadband Internet contracts in Brazil, according to Anatel. — Reuters

Elon Musk’s satellite Internet provider Starlink reversed course and said it would comply with an order by Brazil’s top court to block access to X, the billionaire’s social network, in Latin America’s largest country.

Starlink, which had its bank accounts frozen by judicial order, had informally told Anatel, the country’s telecommunications watchdog, that it wouldn’t comply with the requirement, according to the agency.