| ▲ | macinjosh 4 days ago | |||||||||||||||||||
Ofcom's only card now is to have UK ISPs block 4chan. When that happens will Starlink comply? maybe. what if they block X? could get messy fast. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | lupusreal 3 days ago | parent | next [-] | |||||||||||||||||||
Starlink complies with this sort of stuff in the general case. The only reason they wouldn't in this specific case is if Musk decides to stir up some shit, which to be fair is totally possible. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | perihelions 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |||||||||||||||||||
I'd be totally un-shocked if the UK criminalized Starlink (over OSA or otherwise), in part because they've already criminalized it before, in some of their territories[0,1]. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42979869 ("Starlink in the Falkland Islands – A national emergency situation? (openfalklands.com)"—225 comments) [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37645945 ("Saint Helena Island Communications (sainthelenaisland.info)"—145 comments) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| ▲ | crtasm 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |||||||||||||||||||
Not the only card according to the article >"Ofcom can instead ask a court to order other services to disrupt a provider's UK business, such as requiring a service's removal from search results or blocking of UK payments. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| ▲ | net01 4 days ago | parent | prev [-] | |||||||||||||||||||
Imagine if some tech like DNS over UHF radio What could the UK do? | ||||||||||||||||||||
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