Starlink Successfully Tests Space Direct to Cell Mobile Service

Re:Starlink Successfully Tests Space Direct to Cell Mobile S... by alterego2 on Saturday January 13, 2024 @03:27PM (#38984201)

It will not.

Don't know about China, but Russian citizens already have almost unfiltered access to information. The only major western media outlet currently blocked in Russia is BBC. Anyone can read pretty much anything else - Reuters, Newsweek, CNN, whatever - right from their phones.

Access to information is not the problem (at least for now). It is trivial to get access to uncensored news for anyone with a modicum of desire to do so.

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Re:Starlink Successfully Tests Space Direct to Cell Mobile S... by drak0n1c on Saturday January 13, 2024 @03:46PM (#38984379)

Linguistic and cultural barriers are far stronger than informational barriers. Which may be an upside considering how other potentially self-destructive fads and attitudes spread so rapidly with the internet. We've seen the beginnings of that with the Arab Spring, and various culture wars across English-speaking western countries. If the world were even more homogenous the whiplash from such polarizing movements would be even more severe.

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Re:Starlink Successfully Tests Space Direct to Cell Mobile S... by rany_ on Saturday January 13, 2024 @05:11PM (#38985148)

Also I think the only reason why the BBC was banned in the first place is their BBC in Russian service. See https://www.bbc.com/russian

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Re:Starlink Successfully Tests Space Direct to Cell Mobile S... by concordDance on Saturday January 13, 2024 @06:22PM (#38985739)

Interestingly, most (all?) UK providers block RT, so it's pretty symmetrical.

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Re:Starlink Successfully Tests Space Direct to Cell Mobile S... by KomoD on Saturday January 13, 2024 @06:23PM (#38985747)

Just on DNS level, or?

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