We Should Immediately Nationalize SpaceX and Starlink
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People paying for internet service don't live in the Amazon rainforest
schrieb am 8. Juni 2025, 00:29 zuletzt editiert vonMaybe do a cursory Google search before being confidently incorrect
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Can you imagine who would run those companies if they were government owned?
schrieb am 8. Juni 2025, 00:36 zuletzt editiert vonWhat even is this comment?
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We Should Immediately Nationalize SpaceX and Starlink
The slap fight between Donald Trump and Elon Musk has highlighted the absurdity of keeping so much of our space program and satellite internet infrastructure in the hands of a single oligarch.
(jacobin.com)
schrieb am 8. Juni 2025, 00:39 zuletzt editiert vonThe precedent that will set and the implications... No... We should not do this.
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We Should Immediately Nationalize SpaceX and Starlink
The slap fight between Donald Trump and Elon Musk has highlighted the absurdity of keeping so much of our space program and satellite internet infrastructure in the hands of a single oligarch.
(jacobin.com)
schrieb am 8. Juni 2025, 00:44 zuletzt editiert vonOne way to get businesses to move their factories back to the US due to tarrifs: Start nationalizing them.
/s
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Generally NASA doesn't "develop" rockets per se, they commission rockets to specification.
schrieb am 8. Juni 2025, 00:52 zuletzt editiert von ikidd@lemmy.world 6. Aug. 2025, 02:55It's the specification process that's the thing, nobody there would have gone out on a limb the way SpaceX has with their recovery systems. Look where they are on a shuttle replacement: the Apollo capsule with more room.
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We should just fund NASA and let SpaceX and Starlink go bankrupt to competitors.
schrieb am 8. Juni 2025, 00:53 zuletzt editiert vonSpaceX and Starlink basically have no competition, and if they did, said competitor would also need to be heavily subsidized.
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Maybe do a cursory Google search before being confidently incorrect
schrieb am 8. Juni 2025, 00:56 zuletzt editiert vonFair enough, you got me there. Didn't realize there was such a population of internet craving people in what's supposed to be one of the last relatively untouched areas of nature on the planet.
That being the case though, why didn't this all happen in 2013, when O3b launched to specifically solve this problem for them? It's still running, by the way, after several rounds of upgrades, and significantly more stable than Starlink with their dinky little 5 year disposables. Microsoft, Honeywell and Amazon all use it. But the original and ongoing intent of the project was explicitly to bring internet access to all otherwise unreachable areas, such as islands, deep in Africa, and the open ocean.
I don't oppose Brazilian villagers having internet if they want it, but the situation in which it arrived to them feels suspect to me. I have no proof that Starlink actively went out and pushed internet service onto them like a drug dealer but it would not be out of character for Musk and his subordinates to do so, and that just feels bad.
Regardless there is already an existing solution to this. If you want internet in the Amazon you can use satellite internet. It does not have to be Starlink. If you want good internet, maybe don't live in the Amazon. People in general should probably be leaving that place alone. The article you linked even talks about one of the village leaders splitting his time between the village and the city. We can try and run a fiber line to Manaus and/or Porto Velho and that should be able to serve a reasonably large enough area around them, but even if that fails there are already other solutions.
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When's the last time the US nationalised something?
schrieb am 8. Juni 2025, 01:01 zuletzt editiert vonConrail?
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So you wanna nationalize the whole telecom industry then?
schrieb am 8. Juni 2025, 01:11 zuletzt editiert vonDon't threaten me with a good time!
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No thanks.
schrieb am 8. Juni 2025, 01:21 zuletzt editiert vonSee, that's just cognitive dissonance. You start by saying it's only in theory, and when prompted with actual examples of this existing, you just shut your ears. I went as far as being honest on the particular points that were lacking, such as women/homosexual rights or climate/pollution regulation, but you're incapable of engaging with honest and reality-based analysis because it contradicts your absorbed anticommunist propaganda.
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The precedent that will set and the implications... No... We should not do this.
schrieb am 8. Juni 2025, 01:25 zuletzt editiert vonHealth insurance, ISP, Oil Cos, and utilities should also be nationalized. The US is a weird place where everything is a business. A shithole capitalist hellscape
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The precedent that will set and the implications... No... We should not do this.
schrieb am 8. Juni 2025, 01:33 zuletzt editiert vonNationalization is the opposite of privatization, it's how the US's bureaucratic state was really built, we should absolutely do this and right now is the time
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I've been saying this for years. the footprint that spaceX represents in national launch authority is out of whack to say the least.
schrieb am 8. Juni 2025, 01:36 zuletzt editiert vonThe only reason SpaceX exists is because Boeing and Lockheed managed to compete so badly the only solution was to merge their launch businesses.
So we had one launch company, then spaceX made it two providers, now its back to one because B-mart is using antiquated launch systems (single use).
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We Should Immediately Nationalize SpaceX and Starlink
The slap fight between Donald Trump and Elon Musk has highlighted the absurdity of keeping so much of our space program and satellite internet infrastructure in the hands of a single oligarch.
(jacobin.com)
schrieb am 8. Juni 2025, 01:39 zuletzt editiert vonArrest Musk on violation of controlled substances acts, file immigration violation charges, invalidate his ownership shares due to securities fraud, as he falsified education and naturalization forms.
Or just emminent domain the shit. The Law is just made up right now.
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Congress has always had this power. I'm personally for nationalizing telecomm companies.
schrieb am 8. Juni 2025, 01:45 zuletzt editiert vonHealth; education; energy production; food production & distribution; water; housing; mass transit and telecommunications should all be classified as essential services and nationalised.
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The only reason SpaceX exists is because Boeing and Lockheed managed to compete so badly the only solution was to merge their launch businesses.
So we had one launch company, then spaceX made it two providers, now its back to one because B-mart is using antiquated launch systems (single use).
schrieb am 8. Juni 2025, 01:58 zuletzt editiert vonthis isn't incorrect. ULA is a fucking pork barrel of hideous proportions. doesn't mean we shouldn't nationalize spacex.
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One way to get businesses to move their factories back to the US due to tarrifs: Start nationalizing them.
/s
schrieb am 8. Juni 2025, 02:08 zuletzt editiert von mad_lentil@lemmy.ca 6. Aug. 2025, 04:09I mean if they're utilities, we shouldn't let a board decide what should rightfully be in the hands of the voting public. Really they should welcome a stable (OK maybe not so stable in the US atm, but generally...) owner as the government.
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We Should Immediately Nationalize SpaceX and Starlink
The slap fight between Donald Trump and Elon Musk has highlighted the absurdity of keeping so much of our space program and satellite internet infrastructure in the hands of a single oligarch.
(jacobin.com)
schrieb am 8. Juni 2025, 02:09 zuletzt editiert vonAgreed. These are things that should be of the people.
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We Should Immediately Nationalize SpaceX and Starlink
The slap fight between Donald Trump and Elon Musk has highlighted the absurdity of keeping so much of our space program and satellite internet infrastructure in the hands of a single oligarch.
(jacobin.com)
schrieb am 8. Juni 2025, 02:16 zuletzt editiert von sunflier@lemmy.world 6. Aug. 2025, 09:00I think that's a complicated question. It's both yes and no. Yes, we should nationalize them. No, nationalizing them should not be by tRump. That sets the precedent, or at least reinforces, the concept that the architecture of industry can be nationalized as payback for petty political squabbling. They should be nationalized, however, because fElon has proven himself to be unstable, reckless, petty, and a risk to the nation.
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We Should Immediately Nationalize SpaceX and Starlink
The slap fight between Donald Trump and Elon Musk has highlighted the absurdity of keeping so much of our space program and satellite internet infrastructure in the hands of a single oligarch.
(jacobin.com)
schrieb am 8. Juni 2025, 02:35 zuletzt editiert vonNo, they're fine remaining as private companies. If the government wants to better control over the companies then they can pass regulation and if they want total control then they can build their own alternatives. Nationalization of companies should never be used as a political weapon.
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