[utopiah]

I would be curious how impactful people here think SpaceX satellite fleet is.

Satellite communication is an impressive technical feet. In some very niche cases it is the only viable way.

In the vast majority of cases though it is terrible compared to laying down cables.

What LEO does is addressing a minuscule market. Sure you know a guy, or you might even has a dish on your van, and honestly that's cool. But that is also NOT normal. The van life or having Internet connectivity while crossing the Atlantic on a boat is NOT daily life for the vast VAST majority of people. Most people do 9 to 5 from one suburb to another part of a city. Not a tiny remote town, a city. Those cities are where people actually live and work for decades now already have electricity and in most cases telephony. We can use those.

I think when we have to make decisions that affect us all we have to step back. It is not anymore about a couple of sexy examples, it is about actual impact and actual usage.

This is the opposite of appropriate technology while spoiling a common good.

[rightbyte]

I'd say Starlink's main selling point is spying not utility for cell phone users.

[utopiah]

I don't see why would anybody accept that without a significant upside.

[rightbyte]

There are no upside for non Starlink subscribers and we weren't asked either.

I dunno how many times a day they snoop my phone position from space. Best case Mr Musk only know there is a phone here on the sun deck not which one. I don't know if the signal leaks PI.