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This screws over Trump supporters primarily, so go right ahead.
Dumb take. When the Trump supporters can't get good internet speeds from their local broadband infrastructure thanks to crap like this, they turn to Starlink, prop up fascist Elmo, and to boot they have it reinforced to them once again that the 'government is useless, only the Free Market ©® can provide good quality services'.
Why shouldn't they turn to Starlink if it's better than their local ISPs? If it offers better service I'd use it too. Objectively, Starlink is pretty great. If local ISPs don't invest in their infrastructure they deserve to lose customers. I don't understand your take at all. If you don't think the folks on the boards of those ISPs aren't just as evil as Musk you're not paying attention.
You have it backwards. Why should Starlink be the only reasonable choice for so much of the country? Why should it be the fastest choice for so many?
Why should the federal govt have paid so much money to broadband providers to try to establish a monopoly for Elon musk? He’s got enough money to do that for himself
Sure, broadband providers deserve to go out of business if they don’t serve customers, but that doesn’t work when they can choose to serve only the most profitable customers. More importantly customers deserve to have decent service. Broadband is a need for modern life and should be treated as any other utility
The difference is Musk: 1. Actively funded and orchestrated fascism, ruthlessly cutting government services such that an estimated 14 million people (including 4.5 million children under 5) will die in the next five years due to USAID cuts alone, 2. Is continuing to fund and orchestrate fascism in the form of his new political party, and, 3. Is a Nazi.
So, yeah, fuck Musk and fuck Starlink. I don't care how great the product is if it funds Musk's fascism. (And yes, the majority of his wealth comes from Starlink and Tesla.)
also it will be more expensive in the long run.
Say what you will about Musk, and he is an irredeemable piece of trash, but at least he's open about it. I'd much rather have my Nazis out in the open for the world to see. The CEOs of mega corps/elites are the real enemy, which Musk is one.
I guess I draw a distinction between CEOs price gouging on cable internet access and CEOs destroying social safety nets and social-murdering babies.
Starlink is only 'better' (in some cases, certainly isn't better in all nor at all times as its speed is highly variable), because your US cable and ISP giants have lobbied for decades to remove any oversight the FCC may exert on them - up to and including banning local communities from building their own networks, and ensuring that they have more or less monopoly control in many rural markets.
The only way to fix this is with the hammer of the FCC regulation. The 'free market' cannot fix a monopoly.
So when you laugh at your rural citizenry getting shafted by FCC policy changes that will benefit nobody but the large ISPs & cable companies, because you're in a city and have lots of optiond with the competition that high-density living affords, you're shooting your own regulatory powers in the foot for the sake of spite.
This is all setting aside of course than a huge proportion of rural Americans are not MAGA.
So yeah that's why it's a crappy take.
I never said Starlink is in any way better than all ISPs or even infrastructure types, but it's undeniable that Starlink is the best internet solution for millions of Americans, no doubt millions of others globally. I personally know dozens of 'salt of the Earth' types that only had access to traditional satellite internet. Abysmal bandwidth with laughable latency and criminal data caps.
I'm 100% in agreement that governance has allowed and even encouraged cable/ISPs to run cartels and run rackets. If Starlink can offer the better service they should get all the customers and the ISPs companies can pound sand.
As for the rural dipshits, they don't need you to white knight for them. Their stupidity should be palpable so they have the stimuli to encourage reflection.
Yeah keep moving the goalposts, I never claimed you said Starlink was better than all ISPs I simply clarified 'better'. I'm white-knighting for the rural users now? No I'm pointing out how stupid it is to cheer for the regulators that are supposed to work for you instead shitting on you, because the corporations have lobbied them to and a very corporation-friendly government is in power.
Your response: cheer for the big corporate ISP (what do you think Starlink is exactly)? Gtfoh.
🤣 I just can't take you serious. What goalpost? Am I supposed to know what 'better' means outside of using objective metrics? I'm hardly cheering for broadband standards to fall, but relishing in a bit of schadenfreude.
Apparently I didn't make myself clear way earlier in this thread when I said ALL the stakeholders of these telecom companies are parasites sucking off the hard work of their subordinates. They're vile oligarchic demons looking to squeeze every cent they can. Fascism is just the flavor of the week.
It's only better if the ISPs don't use the money the government gave them to do the thing they said they would do. Which is literally what this article is about, or have you already forgotten?
I want good things, and this is a bad thing that hurts stupid people more
That doesn't make it a good thing
I never said I'm happy about this, but leopards eating faces is the only thing keeping me sane.
I want to say "fair enough", but they're trying to do a genocide
I kinda think you might have to keep yourself sane by getting involved in the resistance. Phone bank for progressive victory, get involved with your local DSA... Or something
Do what you can, but do enough that you won't feel ashamed when children ask about it. It will make you feel better today too