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>> there are plenty of countries in the world citation please? Do they take it down because you don't have a license to transmit in that spectrum band?
by dronemallone 9y ago
>> there are plenty of countries in the world
citation please? Do they take it down because you don't have a license to transmit in that spectrum band?
- neumann 9y agoPerhaps (see sibling comments), but I don't think that's what GP was getting at. They take it down because the government (or whoever is in control) wants to control the flow of information amongst their citizens and not some private (likely foreign) company. What good is the Great Firewall if you can just subscribe to Elon's ISP with a dish? Feasibly, SpaceX would not need to negotiate or conform to any nation-states censorship requirements, because the citizens can just directly access the satellite through private infrastructure. A capitalist analogy is how hotels used to (and many still do) charge outrageously for internet. When people started using their own infrastructure to connect their laptops to the internet, hotels (like the Marriot[0]) jammed wifi hotspots. [0] http://edition.cnn.com/2014/10/03/travel/marriott-fcc-wi-fi-fine/ http://edition.cnn.com/2014/10/03/travel/marriott-fcc-wi-fi-...
- walrus01 9y agoSudan, Iran, China, North Korea, Pakistan, Uzbekistan, tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Venezuela just off the top of my head.