• indigomirage@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    Since Twitter has nothing to do with Tesla (beyond the emotionally stunted owner) this is serious line being crossed. I mean - I don’t care about Tesla. But I do care about SpaceX and Starlink as they have serious geopolitical implications.

    Some country’s leader disses Twitter and they don’t get to launch satellites. Or their people don’t get satellite internet.

    This amount of power should not be in the hands of one rich guy with an inferiority complex.

    • Son_of_dad@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      SpaceX and starlink are dead in the water and utterly useless until Musk has them taken away. As long as he’s running those, they’re just shitty companies with lots of empty promises

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          1 year ago

          Because Republicans gutted NASA for decades. They absolutely loathed that it was a generally beloved program by everyone. And for every dollar of funding saw multiple times that in the value it created. What SpaceX did wasn’t something that NASA had never thought of. They just never had the funding to really pursue it. And especially in the wasteful manner Elon musk has.

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        1 year ago

        I wouldn’t say they’re quite dead in the water but he definitely has plenty of power to enshitify them.

        He already shut off the Ukraine from starlink when he felt like it.

        Tit for tat Disney and Tesla.

        If he fucks with SpaceX though, NASA can just stop dealing with them. They would go real quick from being profitable to begging for people to use their service.

        If he starts getting a lot of back pressure from the EU and US on what he can launch, I can put a serious dent in his wallet.

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          1 year ago

          “when he felt like it” isn’t exactly correct, he specifically didn’t allow them to use starlink to launch attacks on Russia, as it was meant to be used only for defense.

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            1 year ago

            The problem is, none of us have real knowledge about what happened there. All we have is conjecture and/or propaganda.

            It’s equally reasonably possible that he has ties in Russia.