Comment on FCC Denies Starlink Low-Orbit Bid for Lower Latency

Veneroso@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Twitter was never good, it was just popular.

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  • nivenkos@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I like that you can follow scientists and authors directly at the source though.

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    • aniki@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      For what? Is your life in any way any meaningfully different? Why is it important to be connected to people that you don’t know, will never know, and will never interact with? Wouldn’t a better expenditure of energy go towards fostering relationships with people in your community?

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      • Veneroso@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        And you’re on Lemmy?

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    • GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’ll grant you that…

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  • Snapz@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It was by no means perfect, but it did become the defacto town square. The Arab Spring was facilitated in part through Twitter and George Floyd related protests were arranged, amplified and shared through Twitter.

    There’s plenty of incompetence in Musk, but a significant part of this “effort” was deliberate, as a favor to other like minded billionaires upset and frightened that the people had a working, maturing megaphone. They needed that to be broken, if not fully silenced, and musk was the pathetic piece of shit with daddy issues that the other old money billionaires could convince to do the work here as an attempt to gain their favor.

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  • paraphrand@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Like fast food.

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  • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Which is why I don’t understand why the likes of Blue Sky and Mastodon try and copy it. It’s a terrible idea.

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• nivenkos@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Why are you repeating retracted fake news? theguardian.com/…/elon-musk-biographer-admits-sug…

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  • Veneroso@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Thank you. I actually wasn’t aware.

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    • NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That’s the problem with media today.

      I truly don’t blame you for not knowing. There were huge headlines for the initial story, and then smaller headlines on the retraction. Then even after the retraction people that KNOW it was retracted still spread it because Issacson must be lying.

      Its not just Elon, this happens everywhere.

      Get the big headlines, and bury the corrections or clarifications.

      Granted, in this case I don’t think Issacson was malicious in his original reporting, but it really often is malicious

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      • Veneroso@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I found myself in a huge echo chamber over Brexit. World news on Reddit had me believing that it would never happen.

        And yeah, I follow someone for Ukraine news on YouTube. He’s pushed some theories that proved to be untrue so I guess that I have to do my own fact checking. Overall he seems to be good, but he seldomly talks about times that he was wrong.

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• Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  He denied the request by Ukraine to enable starlink on crimea because “it would make SpaceX explicitly implicit in a major act of war and conflict escalation” it would also have been illegal for him to do so because US sanctions prohibits it. The original claim about him disabling it is false and has been debunked. It wasn’t enabled in the first place.

  I also find it hilarious that Russia being able to somehow obtain a limited amount of terminals is somehow proof that Elon is helping Russia but at the same time you’re conveniently ignoring the fact that there’s thousands of terminals in use on the Ukrainian side which SpaceX sent there for free when the invasion happened. It’s not Russia he sent those to but Ukraine.

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  • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    He didn’t send them all for free, they were also funded by the U.S. government. Sanctions say sales of such would be illegal in Russia. So yes, people in Ukraine can legally purchase and use Starlink and people in Russia legally should not be able too.

    So any of his terminals being used illegally are in fact his responsibility. They are using his companies satellites which are included in the sanctions… It doesn’t seem very confusing to me

    What part of that is confusing

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    • Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Do you know how many terminals SpaceX has already found out to used by Russians and have been disabled? Because I don’t but you seem to be implying that they’re not doing anything about it, so what are the numbers?

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      • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        So you claim they are doing something about it and demand someone else find you proof for your claims. Run around with your goal posts all you want.

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  • nivenkos@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The BlueAnon cultists don’t care about the truth.

    It’s crazy how polarised these sorts of debates have become. I wish we could have sensible politicians with views like Andrew Yang, Lee Kuan Yew, Robert Zubrin, Nayib Bukele, Carl Sagan, Richard Dawkins, etc. - focus on developing technology and building up infrastructure and institutions for everyone.

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    • rbos@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I can’t speak for the others but Dawkins has fallen into an anti-trans rabbithole lately and has said some pretty hateful stuff. :(

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      • NegativeInf@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        That’s rather disappointing. But then again, so is the rest of reality.

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