This is a silly hill to die on. Did you complain(or would you have complained) when tax dollars were building space probes, meanwhile people are starving to death on earth?

"Won't somebody please think of the astronomers!" is a moral panic that I just can't get behind.

Astronomy is great. But world-spanning wireless internet is great too. If 5% of astronomical observations get messed up because 100% of people can now have access to the internet, then that is just a big shrug from me.