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I mean I get that and hooray competition I guess? Personally, I don’t want either of those men in charge of a utility like that. ~Elon has already shown that he
by phatskat 3y ago
I mean I get that and hooray competition I guess? Personally, I don’t want either of those men in charge of a utility like that. ~Elon has already shown that he’ll mess with Starlink out of spite~, and Bezos is a person who does not understand _anything_ about what being a person is.
Correction: Musk did not adhere to a request from the Ukrainian government to extend Starlink to parts of Crimea
> the Ukrainian government had asked him to activate Starlink "all the way to Sevastopol," the largest city in Crimea, and he [Musk] refused to do that to avoid escalating the conflict.
I still don’t agree with someone having the option to deny potentially critical communication services in a conflict when that person has zero military expertise.
- modeless 3y ago> Elon has already shown that he’ll mess with Starlink out of spite Are you referring to the supposed shutting down of Starlink over Crimea during a Ukrainian operation? That was misinformation and never happened. The US government has control over Starlink in several different ways and you can be sure that if they really needed it turned on or off in any specific area they could have it done immediately. Anyway these concerns are totally irrelevant to the original point about negativity on Threads because nobody there even realized that a Starlink competitor was what they were talking about.
- phatskat 3y agoThanks! I forgot that that part was from the book by Musk and Isaacson and is clarified shortly thereafter. I’ve updated my comment to reflect the actual impact (which I still don’t agree with)
- inemesitaffia 3y agoThe power to grant is almost always the power to deny or even take away