For now, but only because SpaceX is playing nice. If SpaceX decides to transmit to rural Syria against the wishes of the Assad regime, and the people on the g

For now, but only because SpaceX is playing nice. If SpaceX decides to transmit to rural Syria against the wishes of the Assad regime, and the people on the ground find a receiver, who's going to stop them*? (other than the US, if it so chooses)