Elon Musk poses a clear and present danger to American national security. The sooner the US government revokes his security clearance, terminates its contracts with him and the entities he controls, and builds its own alternatives to Starlink and SpaceX, the safer America will be. (emphasis mine$

The government not doing that in the first place lead to SpaceX having the monopoly, so I think that is part of the problem.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Most of the blame for SpaceX's dominance can be laid at the feet of Boeing.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

I mean, underfunding our own governmental space program might also be a contributing factor. 🤷

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

Boeing was ran into the ground by criminal clones posse. These fake shake ups are just a circle jerk. Clearly you can't trust corpos to run a government contractor. Union and feds need seats on the board. Not if sure if that would fix the grift...

This level of grift can't go unpunished, the empire will fall if this keeps up.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

So weird to see Sam’s Dad pop up in the news

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

"Sam's Dad" has been politically newsworthy since the Clinton administration.

How do you think Sam got the money to buy college humor?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

‘Musk’s SpaceX has nearly total control of the world’s satellite internet through its Starlink unit.’

The British, on the other hand, have a competing satellite network, OneWeb, which is the principal competitor of, and doing a rather poor job of competing with Starlink.

I don't feel a burning need to go look to a British newspaper for advice as to whether-or-not to use an American satellite network versus a British satellite network.

If you guys across the pond want to use OneWeb instead, knock yourselves out.

EDIT: And speaking of national security, the last time we were relying on a British global network for intercontinental communications, we wound up with British intelligence spying on our diplomatic communications channels. Thanks, but I'm pretty comfortable using an American network.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

Reich did not suggest using a British alternative.
His words from the article: "The sooner the US government revokes his security clearance, terminates its contracts with him and the entities he controls, and builds its own alternatives to Starlink and SpaceX, the safer America will be"

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Robert Reich, a former US secretary of labor, is professor of public policy at the University of California at Berkeley

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Yup, but in a British newspaper.

The Brits have pretty adverse interests on this matter. I think that American communications security is a debate that doesn't need to involve the British, can be done perfectly fine among ourselves.

EDIT: I'd also add that Reich isn't the guy to raise the matter either; it's not his area of expertise. If, say, the NSA or friends raise it as an issue -- we pay a large number of full-time domain experts to secure our communications -- then I think that'd be an interesting topic.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Do you really need to be an expert to see a problem with Musk's Russian sympathies?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

or with letting single billionaire control this much infrastructure