Re:SpaceX Starlink average speedtest is 42.3Mbps down / 9.7 ...
by pedrocr on Thursday August 27, 2020 @12:26PM
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You have it backwards. Almost none of the telecom infrastructure in Europe is state owned. As the comment you are replying to explained it's in the US where huge government incentives were paid out to telecom companies for broadband deployment who then proceeded to pocket that money and sit on their hands.
Re:SpaceX Starlink average speedtest is 42.3Mbps down / 9.7 ...
by ohgodplsno on Thursday August 27, 2020 @12:35PM
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>I have zero intrest in having the government control my access to information, no thank you
They kind of already do. NSA splitters are common knowledge by now, and PRISM was yet another proof that they have access to most of your data. Make no mistake, if the US government wants to find you or what you've been doing, it won't be hard for them.
You're either dealing with Mossad or Not Mossad: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2015/08/mickens_on_se...
That the biggest thing Europeans do not understand about the US, many of us hate our government, distrust our government, and the only thing we desire from government is for them to leave us alone..
The US is a individualist nation, not a collectivist nation, though many are trying very hard to change that.