The guy in charge of it has demonstrated that he'll cut people off from accessing it on a whim, though, so it's not really cheap and easy access for the entire globe. It's access for the selected people.

It came on a whim and you didn't complain about that.

You get what you pay for and the service got paid for ultimately.

If it was important enough, it would have been paid for.

They also have cut off people who paid, though. It's currently being paid for and had another cutoff for Ukraine in early February.

Early February 2026 was at the directive of the Ukrainian government in response to hostile Russian use.

Please just stop this thing you're doing. It's nakedly markedly dishonest

Register with Diia or Delta and you'll get your service back.

You're Russian? Sucks to be you

Doesn't that hold for all internet providers? I'm not familiar with SpaceX cutting people of, but that doesn't sound out of line compared to industry.

Other Internet providers at least have true boards of directors, shareholders with decision power, etc. One person doesn’t have the power to snap their fingers and make decisions based on how much ketamine they’re on at the time.

I'm sorry that I don't agree with you that a out of touch board of directors or shareholders are better from the get go than Musk.

Killing Russian access was good, no?

I understand that you want Russia to have access to it without interruption but until there is some sort of "International law" regarding those newer ways of providing Internet, politics will win.

Who did Starlink cut off? Russia, which is legally sanctioned and illegal for US companies to do business with?

It's already pretty cheap, global and universally available.

This is just not true. Not even electricity or hell water is globally available.

The brief history of the internet suggests to me that this is not a clear win.

Almost all of us already have that, and the rest can as well.

The problem is not 'space' - it's getting ourselves sufficiently organized.