Elon Musk’s Starlink faces legal jeopardy in Brazil after X ban

Brazil’s ban of social media platform X has led to greater scrutiny on another part of Elon Musk’s business empire: Starlink. From Amazonian tribes and farming frontiers, to the armed forces and offshore oil industry, the satellite internet service has connected remote corners of the continent-sized territory to the worldwide web since launching there in 2022. Access for Starlink’s 225,000 users in Latin America’s largest nation was thrown into doubt after it was recently dragged into the dispute surrounding the supreme court’s shutdown of X. The episode reveals Starlink’s legal vulnerabilities in the country and has raised concerns among hundreds of thousands of people and businesses in Brazil — often in isolated areas — for whom it has become a vital tool.