Brazilian judge suspends X platform after it refuses to name a legal representative

But, remember: looking up where his personal jet is flying to is bad

Remember the holy scriptures. It’s only oppression when the government does it. When it’s a private company it’s freedom!

Wiretapping requires a lot more than just locating the signal. The signals are encrypted.

Well the US has a pretty strong affiliation with SpaceX, given that they permit all their launches. Also, I can't imagine the US would get away with launching similar technology themselves as exclusively military satellites - other nations would object.

I think he leaves that kind of plagiarism to his old friend Peter Thiel, who seems to have an obsession with Lord of the Rings villains.

Starlink is a mobile internet platform by SpaceX. They currently have somewhere around 6,300 satellites up in low earth orbit, in complex shells covering most of the globe. These satellites aren't permanent, they're so low that they do experience some mild atmospheric drag, which causes them to eventually fall into the atmosphere and burn up. However SpaceX frequently launches more.

Over the last year or so SpaceX have been developing direct-to-cell capability, using 4G/LTE. This means you will be able to send and receive calls, texts and data over Starlink, direct from your mobile phone. This is only possible because of the low altitude of Starlink - conventional satellites are much higher up, and while they can send signals to your phone (eg GPS) they're too far away for your phone to reach back.

However, the flip side of this is that Starlink is effectively operating mobile phone masts up in space, globally. A network carrier on land already has the ability to triangulate your position using cell towers - they ping your phone from multiple towers, with this they can determine distance, and with 3 or more they can triangulate with increasing precision. This is kind of acceptable, because it's only the country you're in (or near to) that will be able to identify and locate you. However with SpaceX you have an American business that's effectively able to identify (through unique identifiers such as IMEI) and locate you via your phone almost anywhere in the world using their satellite constellation.

Lmao they release aluminum oxides when they burn up, it's basically antipersperant in the upper atmosphere.

Ironically though, it will make us all sweat more.

Starlink direct-to-cell uses LTE, aka 4G. Starlink satellites with direct-to-cell capabilities are effectively mobile phone masts in space that travel all over the globe.

Your phone talks back to the satellite to establish a connection, and during this exchange your phone will provide its unique IMEI, as well as you SIM card details and phone number.

If your phone can talk with a cell tower, the tower can work out how far away you are. With 3 or more towers they can determine your location by triangulation. When your phone talks with a cell tower, it identifies itself, including by providing your device's unique IMEI.

Starlink is effectively a bunch of moving towers in space. If 3 or more Starlink satellites can talk to your phone, then they can also determine your position. It's basically the same principle as GPS, except at a much lower altitude and over 4G/LTE bands, and the satellite receives signal back from your phone whereas with GPS it's one way from the satellite to your device.

He already backed down on this vpn ban, because he heard smarter people than him saying he should.

https://veja.abril.com.br/coluna/radar/moraes-recua-de-decisao-sobre-veto-a-vpn-para-acessar-o-x/

Perhaps VPN servers in Brazil (I'm no lawyer) but people can choose to connect to servers outside the country.

They'll probably let people access it but public figures profiles will get fined if they post something.

Apparently VPNs are also not allowed to access it but I dunno how that would even work

That's the point: they can't. However, based by the judge's inquiry, the VPN apps are to be removed from app marketplaces, every single one of them. He asked Google and Apple to remove VPN apps altogether. This extrapolates the boundary of "blocking X", because VPNs aren't solely used for "bypassing ISP blocking", VPNs are also used to link two or more devices into the same LAN over ther Internet, but this will be affected as soon as these apps vanish from Brazilian marketplaces.