Brazil Supreme Court unfreezes X, Starlink's bank accounts after taking $3.3M

Re:Brazil Supreme Court unfreezes X, Starlink's bank account... by rmellow on Saturday September 14, 2024 @01:19AM (#41537649)

> The platform has been blocked in the country of 220 million since the end of last month.

Actually, 203 million. The 2018 estimate was 214 million, which was corrected in the 2022 census. Kinda crazy that it was overestimated by 11M.

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Re:Brazil Supreme Court unfreezes X, Starlink's bank account... by vitorgrs on Saturday September 14, 2024 @02:47AM (#41537972)

Well... the estimation for 2024 [1] is 212 million...

So it seems very likely that the 2022 census was also wrong (there was budget cuts on the institute who do the census, and it had several problems on doing it).

This was a big discussion here...

¹https://agenciadenoticias.ibge.gov.br/agencia-noticias/2012-...

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Re:Brazil Supreme Court unfreezes X, Starlink's bank account... by saagarjha on Saturday September 14, 2024 @02:45AM (#41537963)

Me, when finding out that "VancouverMan" is apparently a single-purpose account that exists to drop right-wing Canadian gripes: I don't know what I expected

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Re:Brazil Supreme Court unfreezes X, Starlink's bank account... by piva00 on Saturday September 14, 2024 @05:55AM (#41538701)

2022 census had lots of issues, IBGE (Brazil's statistics institute) was underfunded due to Bolsonaro's policies.

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