www.Tesmanian.com: SpaceX is getting closer to offering Starlink Internet

[Punk-BatSoup-Stasi 2.0]

On Sun, 23 Aug 2020 10:31:26 +1000
jamesd at echeque.com wrote:

> On 2020-08-23 03:35, Punk-BatSoup-Stasi 2.0 wrote:
> > On Sat, 22 Aug 2020 04:50:25 +0000 (UTC)
> > jim bell <jdb10987 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > 
> >> www.Tesmanian.com: SpaceX is getting closer to offering Starlink Internet.
> >> https://www.tesmanian.com/blogs/tesmanian-blog/starlink-sats
> >>
> > 
> > 
> > 	Why don't you explain how that will affect human freedom? 
> 
> The space internet will be controlled by Musk, while the ground internet
> is controlled by the state authorities 


	musk is just a figurehead and facade for NASA-NSA-jakobo-goldman-sachs and the-rest-of-govcorp. Ergo, 'his' subnet will be as restricted and toxic as the rest of the arpanet. And fully connected to it.

	also, the people on the ground are under 'jurisdiction' of different governments who get to decide what kind of radio equipment can be used. So you can put spy satellites that violate their 'airspace' but the satellites are useless for actual communication if you don't have ground equipment. 



> 
> It will also pass through with a much shorter ping time, which makes
> teleconferencing more viable, thus enabling people in flyover country to
> teleconference, whereupon it becomes a lot easier for members of the
> elite to exercise power while in locations isolated from physical
> violence by other members of the elite.  Antifa and BLM is not going to
> show up at your door, nor will the cops arrest you for suspected thought
> crime, if you are located at your hobby farm in Oklahoma.  I expect
> massive relocation of members of the the elite to Texas, Oklahoma, and
> Kansas.


	you can live in a relatively remote and hard to access place and have a ground radio link to the closest ISP. You don't need satellites for that, I believe. 

	Hell, you could even have some kind of meshnet not owned by govcorp...


 
> This, of course, depends on Musk getting his satellite to satellite
> laser communications working, while at present they are not working.
> Also launching ten thousand satellites is going to need Starship, which
> at present keeps exploding on the launchpad, but Musk has a history of
> usually managing to fix such problems.