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by maliker 775 days ago
My read of the rural broadband decision is that terrestrial broadband providers lobbied hard to get Starlink thrown out on a technically (not enough bandwidth).
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It is only a party-line decision because of Musk's politics. Democrats aren't more susceptible to lobbying.

To me it is clear that we are returning to the politics of the 20th century (ie. flexing regulatory arms to punish speech/actions we don't like). It makes sense - we really only had a brief respite from that from the 90s until ~2016 or so.