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Re:Two giants in the satellite telecom industry join forces ... by whimsicalism on Wednesday May 01, 2024 @07:16PM (#40230776)
It's frankly irrelevant to the neutral, technical criteria the government should be using to evaluate rural broadband or other contracts. My bet is that if Musk had not made recent controversial statements, this would not even be a topic of discussion - and it is being discussed due to more recent unpopularity.
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Re:Two giants in the satellite telecom industry join forces ... by kbenson on Wednesday May 01, 2024 @08:05PM (#40231195)
Honestly, I was more referring to the general market portion, not the specific governmental decision making, but that does appear to be the context of this thread, even though I missed it originally.

I agree that for governmental decision making his behavior hasn't reached a level I think it can or should affect the process. That said, I'm not sure the process should be completely devoid of past regulatory or legal compliance issues, but I don't know how those could be applied evenly, and in the absence of a good framework for that I agree they shouldn't be considered.

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