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by WhereIsTheTruth 28 days ago
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

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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.

> 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.

Agreed

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

Agreed. All racism is wrong. Would you like to take back your “And rightfully so” comment, where you support explicitly racist laws?
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?
Economic opportunity isnt zero sum. The 'opportunity' the ANC is 'redistributing' is neglect and mismanagement of infrastructure. Kneecapping starlink doesn't do anything for blacks.
Economic opportunity for black south africans is close to zero sum when all the profit goes to a foreign entity and white south africans.

Separately, kneecapping starlink does a lot for our country by preventing a man who hates us from abusing our laws and spying on our citizens.