• dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    9 months ago

    Because as we know, the only way for companies owned by the richest person on Earth to do business is if they get hundreds of millions of dollars of taxpayer money first.

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      9 months ago

      As if giving it all to Comcast and Spectrum for the 47th time will make things any better? Starlink is actually something accessible for a lot of these people, while legacy ISPs just pocket the money and claim its too hard to serve rural customers.

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        9 months ago

        Anything is better than Starlink, Starlink is just extreme useless pollution for something that normal ISPs can achieve.

        The government needs to step in and make internet more of a utility like in like every other successful country.

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          9 months ago

          Starlink is just extreme useless pollution for something that normal ISPs can achieve.

          If they could achieve it, Starlink simply wouldn’t exist.

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            9 months ago

            That’s completely wrong, for the ISPs it usually isn’t worth achieving and is why the government should step in.

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              9 months ago

              for the ISPs it usually isn’t worth achieving

              Yes that’s exactly my point

              and is why the government should step in.

              Okay but…they don’t.

              Starlink also covers the entire planet and all the oceans, which is simply not feasible with wires.

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                9 months ago

                And also simply not necessary to have as many satellites as Starlink does needed to cover the ocean and the rare spots where wires can’t go.