Comment on Starlink loses out on $886 million in rural broadband subsidies

• Bo7a@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I would not be able to live where I am without starlink. There isn’t even cell signal for 14 km…

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• MotoAsh@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That is NOT a win of starlink but a failure of regular infrastructure. Companies were paid BILLIONS years ago to expand broadband and they didn’t, and faced zero repercussions because politicians and executives work for the same team.

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• drkt@feddit.dk ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Demand more of your local government instead of pulling the privilege card.

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  • netburnr@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The government keeps giving money to traditionally ISPs to expand broadband and they simply lie and say they did to take the money. It’s private industry fucking us just as much.

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    • drkt@feddit.dk ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’m not disagreeing, but who can stand up against corporate bullying? The government. Make the government do it. The corporate world gets away with it because the politicians turn a blind eye because they’re not held accountable because not enough people stand together. People have bled for the rights that “privileged” people have, it didn’t come free.

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• Oderus@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s it really a privilege to live in a city? Sounds more like a choice than privilege. Your choice has consequences and the further you live from the other people, the more problems you’ll have with certain infrastructure like water, power, internet.

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  • Bo7a@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    But I can build my own power and water infra. And I have. I can’t build my own connection to the internet, which I need to have in order to make money to do the rest of what it takes to live.

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    • Oderus@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      What’s your point?

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      • Bo7a@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        That starlink solves the remaining piece of missing infra that a normal person needs, regardless of the choice to live in a city or not. Even if the CEO is a blight on our species.

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