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Starlink is refusing to comply with Brazil's X ban (Update: Starlink will comply)
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this post was submitted on 02 Sep 2024
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Brazil has an extradition agreement with the United States. Would love to see that shit get put to use.
That's not how extradition works. You have to give people up to the US criminal system. They don't reciprocate. They just promise not to coup your government.
Why would the US strain their relationship with Brazil over Musk? Politically, it makes sense to extradite him.
Also imma need a citation on how extradition works, I searched the wiki and couldn't find anything.
Politically I don't think it makes sense to extradite him because politics is just money nowadays. If money weren't in bed so thoroughly with politics I would agree but unfortunately here in america, bribery is legal and not looked down upon because we just decided to call it lobbying instead of bribing.
He's in deep with the US financial sector and the MAGA GOP base.
I'm failing to see the connection with Brazil here.
What would the backlash be from the US financial sector?
Why would MAGA be mad about the US Government extraditing an African American?
Lobbyists would lean on federal and state legislators to impose retaliatory sanctions.
Because they see him as on their "team".
So in your mind the possibility of Musk being extradited could lead to those colossal outcomes?
The starlink thing died yesterday but, I can't imagine a reaction this strong from the US financial sector or MAGA.
I disagree with the intensity of this response, if it were to happen.
In my mind he just doesn't get extradited, because it's too much trouble and sets a bad standard for American billionaires.
So Musk decided not to leverage this influence and instead acquiesced to a foreign government for funsies.
Sounds like him.
He acquiesced once he could no longer absorb the personal economic cost of defiance.
But the threat of extradition would raise the stakes considerably.
Extradition treaties are almost always reciprocal and this particular treaty is publicly available. No public treaty is going to include a promise not to coup another government because of the obvious political consequences of admitting you might to everyone else.
In theory. But rarely in practice.