• @underisk@lemmy.ml
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    1422 years ago

    I’d like to see more substantial consequences for consciously and deliberately sabotaging a war operation using a service the pentagon paid him to provide.

  • @PunnyName@lemmy.world
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    452 years ago

    Why we shouldn’t allow corporations to control information, or information services. They need to be publicly owned.

    • Or there need to be lots of competing services owned by different companies. That worked reasonably well until companies that are essentially monopolies became the norm, and it’s not just news agencies that are a problem. The high inflation we’ve been seeing is largely caused by record profits that little or no competition allows.

      • @Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works
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        222 years ago

        “Capitalism worked pretty well until capitalism happened.”

        The only way you’re getting lots of competing services from competing companies is with a LOT of government regulation of the market. Otherwise the rational behaviour for everyone involved in a free market inevitably leads to monopolies.

        If you’re looking for a compromise between “everything is state run” and “late stage capitalism” then you can always go with something like the Canadian “Crown Corporation” model, where you create a not-for-profit company whose charter requires them to provide the best possible service at the best possible price. Then you let them compete with the market. Sasktel in Saskatchewan is a great example of this. Canada has famously terrible telecoms pricing, but in Saskatchewan rates are much, much cheaper than the rest of the country, because everyone has to compete with the floor set by Sasktel.

    • jayrhacker
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      22 years ago

      Who regulates spectrum in disputed territory? As an operator you have to pick who you’re willing to piss off more, Russia has nukes and the capability to physically disrupt the Starlink network.

      • @Rapidcreek@reddthat.com
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        42 years ago

        The International Telecommunications Union which is part of the UN. More importantly, US law is applicable, and it says you can’t do such a thing unless you stipulate in ontract that you can.

  • downpunxx
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    182 years ago

    neither ignorance nor ego, elon musk is simply a big wet sloppy nazi cunt. simple.

  • @Motavader@lemmy.world
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    112 years ago

    Musk is an absolute sociopath, but there’s actually a logic to this.

    Apparently the US has extremely tight export controls for telecomm tech used for war, and Starlink was concerned that by Ukraine using it in an offensive way it would result in the US or other countries classifying Starlink as military tech, thereby limiting where they can export it. That would be really bad for Starlink, of course, which is why they specified at the beginning that Ukraine should only use it for civilian goals (hospitals, schools, government, etc).

    I assume the contract between Starlink and the Pentagon covers that, but I haven’t researched that far.

  • @OurToothbrush@lemmy.mlM
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    72 years ago

    This was over a year ago, musk is a shithead fascist but this just reeks of scapegoating for the failed offensive.

    • AlphaOmega
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      62 years ago

      Yeah, I was wondering why so many headlines about this, I thought he had done it a 2nd time.

      Turns out his biography or something came out and this was mentioned in the book. So apparently this is to drum up attention for his book? Weird option to go with to sell a book.

      • mrnotoriousman
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        72 years ago

        I didn’t hear about it before. Makes sense when a book comes out talking about it more people learned what a piece of shit he is.