[IFC_LLC]

I've lived in SA for about a year. I would have paid a lot of money for something like Starlink a couple of years ago.

Where you have internet it does not work while the local power is out. And it was not that stable and at times we were sitting 10 hours without power a day. And that's in Joburg. And 5g was hard to come by.

So I can only imagine that locals are happy to see such a thing. Especially if you can run it from a car charger or something.

[bridgettegraham]

In South Africa we are not allowed to make use of Starlink. The reason: our government insists that the owners of Starlink give > 50% of ownership of the contract exclusively to black people (our discriminatory BBEEE that explicitly states, openly, in any advert in public, that a company is allowed to ONLY EMPLOY black people and not white people), which Elon Musk and his company refuses to do (good for them). That is the reason we can't have Starlink.

[angry_octet]

When Elon's dead this problem will go away.

[WhereIsTheTruth]

And rightfully so

Remember the US backlash against Huawaie over 5G towers?

African nations should have the exact same sovereignty/national security concerns regarding US tech, specially given the well documented history of the NSA and CIA leveraging their digital platforms for intelligence/spying

It's actually funny how the discourse is never the same when it come to US interests vs sovereign nations

[sjducb]

There are lots of white South Africans. I believe musk is one. Starlink is majority owned by a South African.

The law isn’t about foreign/doneatic. It’s about black/white.

Increasingly this state authorised racism is now extending to black people. The violent ethnic cleansing against black Milawians by black South Africans is terrifying.

[watwut]

> The violent ethnic cleansing against black Milawians by black South Africans is terrifying.

You will be shocked to discover that most ethic cleansings were among people who looked similar. And that include nazism in Europe which did not divided world into black and white either. It includes arab world and hostilities there too.

Like, for christ sake, you could have used the names of those ethnic groups.

[WhereIsTheTruth]

Agreed

Just like the violent ethnic cleansing against Palestinians, Lebanese, Syrians and Jordanians by white Israelis is terrifying

[sjducb]

Agreed. All racism is wrong. Would you like to take back your “And rightfully so” comment, where you support explicitly racist laws?

[dreambuffer]

Why don't you guys ever acknowledge that the law is an attempt to correct the racism of the apartheid government by distributing economic opportunities to those who never had them?