Yes they are wrong, and you are wrong too. This isn't "Bezos' rocket vanity project". This is Amazon's Kuiper satellites, planned to provide globally available fast internet access and some welcome competition for Musk's Starlink. This isn't space tourism for rich people, Bezos has less than a 10% stake in it (through his remaining, dwindling ownership of Amazon), and it's not even using a Blue Origin rocket. It's a real business that should provide a lot of value to real people on Earth.

Besides that, the overwhelmingly hateful sentiment is way over the top. I want no part of a platform that is populated by people like that, especially when they clearly have no regard for facts.

I enjoyed the civil honeymoon Threads enjoyed, but my feeling was always that we’d know Twitter was dead when the jerks migrated to Threads. The Bezos post comments marked that event.

I mean I get that and hooray competition I guess? Personally, I don’t want either of those men in charge of a utility like that. Elon has already shown that he’ll mess with Starlink out of spite, and Bezos is a person who does not understand _anything_ about what being a person is.

> Elon has already shown that he’ll mess with Starlink out of spite

Are you referring to the supposed shutting down of Starlink over Crimea during a Ukrainian operation? That was misinformation and never happened. The US government has control over Starlink in several different ways and you can be sure that if they really needed it turned on or off in any specific area they could have it done immediately.

Thanks! I forgot that that part was from the book by Musk and Isaacson and is clarified shortly thereafter. I’ve updated my comment to reflect the actual impact (which I still don’t agree with)

The power to grant is almost always the power to deny or even take away