Re:SpaceX hits two milestones in plan for low-latency satell...
by paulsutter on Wednesday February 14, 2018 @07:04PM
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Elon Musk has said that he doesn’t intend to fight governments over internet access, especially governments that can shoot down satellites:
"Obviously, any given country can say it's illegal to have a ground link... And from our standpoint we could conceivably continue to broadcast, I mean, I'm hopeful that we can structure agreements with various countries to allow communication with their citizens, but it is on a country-by-country basis. If they get upset with us, they can blow our satellites up, which wouldn't be good. China can do that. So probably we shouldn't broadcast there."
"Obviously, any given country can say it's illegal to have a ground link... And from our standpoint we could conceivably continue to broadcast, I mean, I'm hopeful that we can structure agreements with various countries to allow communication with their citizens, but it is on a country-by-country basis. If they get upset with us, they can blow our satellites up, which wouldn't be good. China can do that. So probably we shouldn't broadcast there."
From: http://shitelonsays.com/transcript/spacex-seattle-2015-2015-...