But Elon shut off Starlink to Ukraine at the worst time… he can do it to you too.
Comment on Iran’s internet blackout left people in the dark. How does a country shut down the internet?
Mrkawfee@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The article suggests the only way to avoid government shutdowns is through satellite internet which makes Starlink a lot more valuable.
Retro_unlimited@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
buzzer noise
Sat links are a way to avoid that… if you assume they are not cooperative with the government.
Which is basically a very stupid assumption in a whole lot of scenarios.
Actual alternative:
Build a community meshnet of your own transceiver devices, and/or use I2P.
It’d be some work to setup, and probably be pretty slow, but this would at least enable local communication, and if you’re using I2P, it’d also be secure and private.
At the moment, Starlink in Iran can only do local sms text messages, that’s it, no web access, no voicecalls, no signal nor whatsapp nor telegram.
Also, Elon can just rail a line of ketamine and suddenly change his mind for no apparent reason.
Whereas a local meshnet does not have a single point of failure, and actually supports many more kinds of internet traffic, and Elon isn’t reading all your SMS and metadata… as well it being possible to hook into any kind of potential tunnel to the broader internet.