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Re:Two giants in the satellite telecom industry join forces ... by maliker on Wednesday May 01, 2024 @01:23PM (#40226344)
My read of the rural broadband decision is that terrestrial broadband providers lobbied hard to get Starlink thrown out on a technically (not enough bandwidth).
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Re:Two giants in the satellite telecom industry join forces ... by whimsicalism on Wednesday May 01, 2024 @01:37PM (#40226547)
It is only a party-line decision because of Musk's politics. Democrats aren't more susceptible to lobbying.

To me it is clear that we are returning to the politics of the 20th century (ie. flexing regulatory arms to punish speech/actions we don't like). It makes sense - we really only had a brief respite from that from the 90s until ~2016 or so.

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