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TWeaK ,

They also froze assets from Starlink.

Meanwhile Starlink’s direct to cell capability is only growing. If your phone has 4G, Starlink knows where it is.

vxx OP ,

The only thing that is surprising to me is that musk didn’t call it Skynet.

Scary person.

TWeaK ,

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.

lud ,

What do you mean by “villains”?

The only Tolkien inspired names I could find are Arda, Palantir, Valar, Mithril, Rivendell, and Lembas, none of which are names of villains.

Two Palantiri have been used by villains but that’s about it.

JohnnyCanuck ,
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LOTR nerds are the best nerds.

“The wise speak only of what they know.” – Gandalf

ThePantser ,
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So glad we have a private company that we have no affiliation with tracking practically every phone on the planet. Feels like this “feature” is illegal by way of wiretapping and stalking laws.

ShinkanTrain ,

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

TWeaK ,

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.

lolcatnip ,

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

magnetosphere ,
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But not who you are… right?

FlyingSquid ,
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…as the ozone layer gets destroyed.

qz.com/spacex-starlink-satellites-ozone-layer-185…

PrincessLeiasCat ,

Wait what? Can you elaborate on the 4G thing?

umbrella ,
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we got a funny email about them being unable to process payments

the clock is ticking for starlink in brazil and it would be so fucking funny if they had to stop operations here because of elon’s ego

Linnce ,

He’s taking all vpn off Google and apple too. This is a terrible, dangerous and dumb decision despite how much I dislike Twitter and musk.

SnotFlickerman ,
@SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Good.

However, I’m curious about how they plan to implement this, technologically.

Like will it be a court order to ISPs to block X at a DNS level?

Will Musk go full Qanon and make a big deal about making an X darknet site for Brazil or some dumb shit?

We live in a fucking circus, and the clowns are running the show.

ShinkanTrain ,

Like will it be a court order to ISPs to block X at a DNS level?

Yes, I believe the next step is for the Telecomm Agency to issue an ordinance. Google and Apple now have to remove the app from the store. Apparently VPNs are also not allowed to access it but I dunno how that would even work.

Mereo ,

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

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

ShinkanTrain ,

Yeah, you know how it goes. It’s illegal but you can do it if you want to.

ZeroHora ,
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Basically yeah.

dsilverz ,
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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.

vxx OP ,

Like will it be a court order to ISPs to block X at a DNS level?

I think that’s exactly it and how I understand this sentence:

Given that operators are aware of the widely publicized standoff and their obligation to comply with an order from de Moraes, plus the fact doing so isn’t complicated, X could be offline as early as 12 hours after receiving their instructions, said Luca Belli, coordinator of the Technology and Society Center at the Getulio Vargas Foundation, a university in Rio de Janeiro.

Nougat ,

Like will it be a court order to ISPs to block X at a DNS level?

It will be exactly this.

FlyingSquid ,
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A search Friday on X showed hundreds of Brazilian users inquiring about VPNs that could potentially enable them to continue using the platform by making it appear they were logging on from outside the country.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/191212ab-8e48-41f8-be19-511f2c59d4d8.png

This is your chance to break free.

dsilverz ,
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There is something that most news articles aren’t paying attention to: the judge requested Google and Apple to remove VPN apps from their marketplaces. Not just apply fines to those who dare to use VPNs in order to access X, but removing the VPNs altogether. I mean, I use OpenVPN Client for making a LAN to connect my smartphone and my laptop together (so, for example, I can use KDE Connect between a smartphone over mobile network and a laptop over cable internet). I don’t even have an X account, but a decision focused on that platform is extending its reaches beyond the intended target, affecting those who use VPN for professional and technical purposes.

dunidane ,

Unfortunately people like routine. Look how many people went back to reddit after the mobile disaster.

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