SpaceX projected 20 million Starlink users by 2022—it ended up with 1 million::Starlink has a fraction of the projected $12B revenue and 20M users, WSJ says.

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    Starlink is perfect for nationalization. Internet is. Infact, nationalize all utilities. Yes, internet should be a utility at this point. It should not be run for profit.

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      After Musk disabled Starlink to aid Russia, a hostile state in their efforts to invade a sovereign democracy, it should have been clear to everyone that Musk poses a very real security threat, and Starlink should have been seized and nationalised.

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        1 year ago

        This fiasco is a glaring example that no one indvidual shold be able to accrue enough wealth to affect entire countries.

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        Y’all all really think there isn’t something more going on there? Like people being like “Crimea is Ukraine!” Well yes I agree with the sentiment, even the US government doesn’t consider crimea to be Ukraine

        Edit: After looking further I do see the US stance is that Crimea is Ukraine, however they have specifically not been providing weaponry with the intent of retaking Crimea (at least until recently where it seems they’ve taken a looser stance on it) similarly to how they weren’t providing weaponry to attack Russia, the whole idea was that we were helping them defend themselves “only”.

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            Look at how we handle Taiwan for an idea of how wishy-washy the US government is in these situations.

            Biden has said we support Taiwan and it’s independence, then directly after that our government walks it back to avoid escalating tensions with China.

            Sorry I was definitely wrong about the US’s stance overall on Crimea, however we specifically were not providing armaments that could/would be used to attack Crimea

            https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/18/us/politics/ukraine-crimea-military.html

            My initial statement was based on my incorrect memory of what was said after the initial faux-“referendum” that caused it to be annexed (forcefully taken) by Russia (which they tried to pretend was by the people living in crimea), as the US didn’t do much except slap a few sanctions on Russia.

            I’ll edit my initial comment to better reflect the truth.

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      As someone who lives in a country that formerly had a nationalized phone company in the internet age, and currently has a nationalized power company and airline. Dear God fuck no!

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        In my country, the main backbone is built, owned and operated by the government. The services on it are privatized

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        1 year ago

        I say we let him build up a huge satellite fleet and then force him to sell a huge chunk of it under antitrust law.

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          You mean the same government that allowed XM and Sirius to merge with no other satellite radio competition would go after Starlink when they have competition (Hughesnet)?