@sundogplanets I am currently not buying starlink internet for exactly this reason, and in part because of your info. People look at me like I'm crazy when I say I'm not giving that asshole a penny.

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There are so many reasons not to use #Starlink -

the atmospheric pollution,

being at the whim of a far-right tech-bro, to turn your communications on and off as he sees fit (and has done before),

contribute to his empire of launch industries (#SpaceX), communications (#Starlink) and propaganda (#XformerlyKnownAsTwitter),

its military interests,

the fact that it s not sustainable and will fall apart at some point (#Kessler),

damaging your own infrastructure

... and more:

@sundogplanets Or you could write to them and ask them to comply with US military requests to turn off starlink receivers that are being by the Russian military to control Shahed drones in Ukraine.

@sundogplanets Do you know Musk tries to gain influence with some rather naive leftist groups by offering them free Starlink gear for their direct actions/protest work? I know because he offered & then donated several full Starlink setups to activists in BC. People took them out of desperation because other communications gear was seized by RCMP CIRG. I heard similar things had happened with Starlink in NZ & a few places in South America too.

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I have, and use, another option but am afraid Starlink will drive local ISPs out of business as they only offer much lower speeds to any of us with trees between our home and their tower.

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In our not-so-rural region region Elon was about to be the only choice. Then the big three Canadian telcos decided it was, in fact, cost effective to connect us and life has been peachy since. It’s almost like it wasn’t in fact that hard in the first place!

@sundogplanets I like how for years, we were sold on the idea “oh don’t worry, satellites just burn up in the atmosphere once they die.”

@sundogplanets It's ok, terrified is way off in the rear view mirror at this point

@sundogplanets to add to the terror my first thought is: how hard would it be for him to have weaponised some % of that "fleet"? Is that feasible. Obviously the guy doesn't have the skills to do it himself, but I bet he has the mentality to try. It'd require some number of people working for him to be in on it and surely there aren't many who'd go along with something like that…

Have them launch some sort of tungsten rod perhaps? The old "rods of god" concept.

I may have read too much sci-fi.

@sundogplanets is there anything else we can do apart from that ? As I understand it, nothing Starlink is doing is illegal under US law (we'll ignore the massive failure that is)?