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Most countries only want this for specific places: https://fas.org/blogs/security/2018/12/widespread-blurring-of-satellite-images-reveals-secret-facilities/ htt
by azernik 5y ago
Most countries only want this for specific places: https://fas.org/blogs/security/2018/12/widespread-blurring-of-satellite-images-reveals-secret-facilities/ https://fas.org/blogs/security/2018/12/widespread-blurring-o...
Letting Israel have something more extreme was a concession that cost the US very little, and came at a period of exceptionally good US-Israeli relations. Specifically, the US wanted to reward Israel for successive handovers of bits of the Territories to the Palestinian Authority, and staying out of the Gulf War.
- Zak 5y agoIt seems to me like it infringes on the first amendment rights of anyone who wants to make and distribute such imagery, though I imagine a court has found otherwise at some point. Limits on freedom of expression are no small thing from my perspective.
- azernik 5y agoSpace is... special. And national security is even more special. Regulating Earth observation is a standard bureaucratized function [1], and checks lots of boxes for getting leniency from the courts [1] https://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/CRSRA/ https://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/CRSRA/