2024-04-11 04:54:00
The Public Prosecutor’s Office at the Federal Audit Court (TCU) instructed the court to ask the federal government for clarification on the existence of contracts with Elon Musk’s Starlink.
According to the deputy attorney general, Lucas Rocha Furtado, if the existence of these agreements is confirmed, the TCU must “determine its immediate extinction due to the violation of national sovereignty defended by Mr. Elon Musk.
Furthermore, Furtado also advises the TCU to analyze a request to ban the social network X in Brazil.
[é necessário] analyze the possibility of this flagrantly anti-social network being banned from operating in the country, given its users use it as a means of attacking Brazilian democracy.
Folha also mentions that Furtado argues that even small contracts with Starlink should be broken.
In my understanding, there cannot be any relationship between the Brazilian government, in all its instances, with Mr. Elon Musk, who, in total affront and disrespect for national sovereignty, threatened not to submit to Brazilian law. Brazil cannot live on crumbs if it wants to be respected, and urgent measures must be taken in this regard.
For now, the TCU has not commented on the matter, but we know that Starlink was hired by President Jair Bolsonaro’s government to provide satellite internet to schools and indigenous villages in the Amazon.
Therefore, these contracts are probably still valid. It is worth remembering that, faced with a previous threat, Musk himself said that, if the government breaks the contracts, he must keep services active in schools.
The billionaire also published a note where he said that he “respects the laws of Brazil and all countries where the social network X operates”, marking a change of course following saying that he would not comply with “illegal” orders from the Federal Supreme Court (STF).
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