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SlowMotionPanic t1_ix6l35j wrote

Reply to comment by forahive in European Union strikes €6bn deal to develop own broadband satellite network by Sorin61

>stepping up practically overnight to deliver free internet access for an entire country when the need was dire and footing most of the bill.

The US government paid for those. A significant amount of them, at very least, and continues to pay.

Starlink was possible life the same reason Musk’s other, non-Twitter ventures were possible: government welfare.

>Clearly, all those lurking anonymously through social media, dropping political shittakes as they go, are light-years ahead in morality, civility, and general value to humanity.

As opposed to being born rich and buying your way into the companies that made you most famous, dropping political shittakes like a pleb?

Cry us a river.

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forahive t1_ix6v8jp wrote

>The US government paid for those.
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>A significant amount of them, at very least, and continues to pay.

Yes, the US has kicked in some $7-10M (depending on the reporting) as of recent. Interesting note the calculations largely consider transportation costs whilst the equipment itself is freely supplied by SpaceX - IMO not a bad deal at all. The still-ongoing cost to SpaceX is somewhere north of $20M a month; thus my phrasing "footing most of the bill".

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