The minister of the (Supreme Federal Court), said on Tuesday (11) that the project of Starlink, the billionaire venture, is a power project. According to him, so far Brazil has maintained national sovereignty because the big techs depend on the antennas of each country. Thus, with the project of low orbit satellites, the company could advance without responding to national legislation.
“For now we can maintain our sovereignty. It is a matter of national sovereignty. And our jurisdiction. Because the big techs need our antennas and our telecommunication systems. For now,” he said.
The minister made a reference to the decisions of the Supreme that suspended social networks, as in the case of X (formerly), also of Musk last year, and the Rumble video platform, still in force. In order to be completed, the rapporteur also notifies the (National Telecommunications Agency) to block access.
“It is not for other reasons that one of the social networks has as partner another company called Starlink and which intends to put low orbit satellites worldwide so as not to need the antennas of any country. In Brazil today only has 200 thousand points. The forecast is to reach 30 million points in Brazil. And there is no point in cutting antenna,” said the minister.
“It’s a game of conquest of power, being done year after year, and if the reaction is not strong now it will be very difficult to contain later,” he said.
The magistrate. His presence was scheduled for a table with the Minister of (Attorney General of the Union), Jorge Messias, and the director general of, Andrei Rodrigues.
The MBA is offered by FGV Comunicação (School of Communication, Media and Information from the Getulio Vargas Foundation), in partnership with AGU, and had the inaugural class on Tuesday night (11). The theme of the debate was the challenges of digital platform regulation.
The course aims to enable public functionalism on the subject. The first class will only be destined to servers, with vacancies to AGU, the TSE (Superior Electoral Court), the MJSP (Ministry of Justice and Public Security) and others.
Moraes is a rapporteur of both the fake news inquiry in the Supreme, opened in 2019 and investigating offenses and threats to the court, many of them through social networks, and cases related to.
The minister has been dedicated to the theme also outside the Supreme Court. Amid large technology companies, he gave a speech of about 40 minutes to new students from USP Law School on February 24.
“They are not neutral. They are economic groups that want to dominate world economy and politics, ignoring borders, ignoring the national sovereignty of each country, ignoring legislations, to have power and profit,” he said.
One year earlier, on February 28 last year, he – with 298 pages, obtained by Sheet– To run for a full professor at USP law school.
Tuesday’s seminar was open to the public and free. According to FGV Comunicação director Marco Ruediger, the defense of democracy in the digital environment requires a profound understanding of platform dynamics and disinformation propagation mechanisms.
