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Re:What do Starlink’s latest Ookla results mean for its RDOF... by UmbertoNoEco on Thursday June 30, 2022 @02:19PM (#31936378)
I am latin-American Mr "I think Anglo is the world default", in our region the US has been a much more pernicious force in history than China,by several orders of magnitude. I understand we are just simple apes that love to think tribally (the logical part of our brain is shut off) but I would expect one is aware enough to understand there are other "tribes", specially when worldwide one's group does not reach double digits as % of population.
Re:What do Starlink’s latest Ookla results mean for its RDOF... by weaponizedlinux on Thursday June 30, 2022 @02:34PM (#31936609)
Playing the "Holier-than-thou and I think Americans are assholes" card combo by itself is not countering their point.
Re:What do Starlink’s latest Ookla results mean for its RDOF... by ncmncm on Thursday June 30, 2022 @02:57PM (#31936942)
It is correct that Starlink is not motivated to act for your benefit, any more than for this individual. Your interlocutor has long experience with such things. So do we, really; are Starlink's incentives aligned any different from AT&T's?

A few years back, AT&T took a half $billion from US taxpayers to build out fiber to rural neighborhoods. One comes to within 1/10 mi of my house. But they were not obliged to light any of it. They did not. That fiber sits dark, more than a decade on.