• DelightfullyDivisive@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Are you saying that geolocation of a starlink unit is difficult from the starlink satellite network? That seems unlikely to me.

    Starlink has no reason outside sanctions to give a fuck where their payments are coming from

    Do you see a moral dimension to this? Keeping technology out of the hands of an aggressor state is an excellent reason. I think that many people feel that because corporate entities behave like criminal organizations (indifferent to anything other than maximizing their own profits) that this is somehow OK. It isn’t, and normalizing isn’t acceptable either.

    • KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      3 months ago

      Are you saying that geolocation of a starlink unit is difficult from the starlink satellite network?

      In 99% of cases? No. In the case of a state actor intentionally wanting to obsfucate the location? Absolutely.

      Do you see a moral dimension to this?

      You’re either missing the point or ignoring it. If you bothered to read around that sentence, you’d realize that in context it has nothing to do with morals, and everything to do with other companies with a financial incentive failing to do it. If a company loses out on 75+% of their profit when I pay for YouTube out of India, and fail to stop me despite active efforts, how do you expect a company to manage it against a state actor.