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China can both jam the satellite signals or (as Musk said during a Q&A) blow the satellites up. Selling directly to consumers will not be Starlinks main line o
by indolering 7y ago
China can both jam the satellite signals or (as Musk said during a Q&A) blow the satellites up. Selling directly to consumers will not be Starlinks main line of business, it will be backbone connections to local providers. So even if Starlink is unwilling to do any filtering, the local ISPs will do the filtering.
- mr_toad 7y ago> blow the satellites up ! They don’t just sit over China. There’s no way they could just start shooting them down without repercussions.
- numakerg 7y agoChina is the poster-boy of doing things without repercussions. They could shoot down any commercial satellite and suffer barely any consequences.
- Tuna-Fish 7y ago> Selling directly to consumers will not be Starlinks main line of business It absolutely will be. What they have said is that it won't be Starlinks main line of business at the beginning, until the receiver costs have been driven down and the constellation is much more dense. At that point, they very much intend to provide internet access directly to millions of people.
- jacobwilliamroy 7y agoI remember Neil Stephenson once compared the cutting of undersea fiber optic cabling to the use of nuclear weapons: once one nation does it, every one is going to do it, so no one ever does it. So I think China will innovate and find ways to block access to starlink, without attacking the satellites.