The Free Speech thread

[Bofferbrauer2]

EricHiggin said:

Bofferbrauer2 said:

It's Brazil shutting off the signal coming from the satellites (basically it's IP adresses), not Musk cutting it. He has absolutely zero influence about it safe for what he should have done in the first place. Him grandstanding about continuing to provide Starlink is just posturing, salesmanship and him having absolutely no clue how that actually works.

What does Starlink have to do with Twitter? What about Brazil's own people using Starlink? Screw Elon and screw the people?

You pay for Starlink through Twitter, at least in some countries. Anything to avoid Twitter user numbers to flatten out, I guess.

Starlink isn't the only option for Internet through space, not by a longshot, and the competition tends to be quite a bit cheaper without being significantly slower.

Hughesnet or Viasat for instance could easily replace Starlink for those people, and with a cheaper plan to boot.