[sidcool]

I understand no one here likes Elon. But does it mean we find justifications for our collective bias in everything his companies do?

[lysace]

Relevant news from the past week:

"A joint investigation by The Insider, Der Spiegel, and Le Monde":

https://theins.press/en/inv/294635

Basically Russia and China are collaborating in taking down Starlink. Leaked documents showing the plans.

They don't mention social media opinion shaping, but then again the leaked documents are from 2023.

[kaliqt]

Yes, it would seem so.

[mparramon]

I like him! :D

[sidcool]

I don't like him. I don't hate him either. He's not a thing in my life. But the companies are, SpaceX etc. do impact me.

Basically I would hate to see HN become Reddit.

[singingtoday]

It's definitely happening

[throwaway132448]

Why do you put the onus on everyone else to make excuses? It sounds very entitled.

[sidcool]

I did not get it. But may be the onus is to not have a collective bias?

[esperent]

It's an American company polluting the night sky for the entire world, for a service that will ultimately be access gated by the US government/private industry. That's where the negative sentiment is coming from. Who cares which of the many equally shitty US billionaires/oligarchs is funding it?

[gordonhart]

Do you feel the same way about Guowang and Qianfan, two very real very large constellations notably not funded by US billionaires?

[inemesitaffia]

And are also worse in several ways?

[throwaway132448]

This is a dumb question given that being funded by a US billionaire is what shapes their opinion.