[lolbase]

The government shouldn’t give out billion dollar participation trophies.

There’s a set of metrics to meet. Starlink is moving the wrong way against those metrics. As such, they’ll need to succeed unaided in the marketplace, instead of getting a government handout.

[2devnull]

Perhaps not billion dollar, but shouldn’t it give some participation trophies? How else to entice innovation in certain areas, especially when the interest rates are killing small tech outfits.

[lolbase]

No, it should not.

[intrasight]

Agreed. The FCC shouldn't be giving out any funds. They should stick to their role as regulator. Starlink as a properly grounded libertarian outfit should have lobbied to have any subsidy role by the FCC discontinued. Starlink should have just competed in the broadband marketplace - as should have everyone else. In such a level playing field, I think Starlink would do just fine.

[fomine3]

LEO space is a limited global resource. I think government should regulate (and sometimes subsidy) to avoid it become a private company's suck.

[intrasight]

> I think government should regulate

That would just move it from private company suck to nation-state suck. It needs to be regulated by the International Telecommunication Union (UN).

[_ea1k]

I agree with this. But we have to operate in the world that exists and not necessarily the one that we wish to exist.