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by loceng 770 days ago
A single Starlink could service bandwidth to a whole lot of people through local wired connections - which is a serious disruption to the existing industrial complex-government power structure; is what comes to my mind first.
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> existing industrial complex-government power structure

Or local businesses as they are sometimes known

Until there's consolidation and it's no longer local but national or multi-national, or global companies like Blackrock et al who own controlling shares and board member positions to steer the companies how they choose.

But there is a good point and pattern to notice here, that further consolidation into a global companies providing internet access put resources and power into even fewer hands, but now that power is no longer being held by potentially authoritarian politicians and their Gestapo.

The solution for that means requiring multiple satellite internet providers, and people paying attention always to prevent a critical mass or majority of them from capture by bad actors - which we know happened with MSM consolidation, as well as more recently with social media platforms all illegally colluding with the US government - exposed due to Elon buying Twitter-X and releasing the Twitter Files.

But what point were you trying to make? That Starlink is bad for local economies because people are paying a non-local company?

> But what point were you trying to make? That Starlink is bad for local economies because people are paying a non-local company?

It's certainly a good way to suppress local infrastructure development, yes