This is probably also why Russia is working to build their own Starlink alternative, as reported in the media. [1] Any sane country right now should be looking at Musk, one of the owners of the largest global satellite based communication network and how he changes his mind on who he will and won't support on a whim, and be saying to themselves that they too need an independent satellite network, if not a regional one. Musk is not a person who can be trusted.

Hopefully, if we get a proper left leaning president in 2028 we can nationalize SpaceX and Starlink and wrest control of these critical pieces of infrastructure out of the hands of a man who has gone full fascist (absolutely no denying that at this point).

Russia races to build rival to Elon Musk’s Starlink https://www.ft.com/content/423ca208-8e22-4fb3-a76d-b9c722fd8...

No paywall: https://app.ft.com/content/423ca208-8e22-4fb3-a76d-b9c722fd8...

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elcritch 5 hours ago | parent [-]

Perhaps the more fascist behavior is to call for seizing control of a private enterprise because you don’t like the owners politics?

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psd1 3 hours ago | parent [-]

No, nationalisation is not one of the hallmarks of fascism. Fascism, historically, favoured and co-opted private enterprises that had fascist-aligned leadership. E.g., Elon Musk in the white house.

There is an enormous range between total central control and total laissez-faire. Even America has a national postal service; that does not make it the USSR.

National strategy should not consider Elon's fee-fees

	▲	inemesitaffia 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		It's fascism. You're not going to nationalise it because you won't appropriate the money in the first place anyway. I remember Europe noping out of buying 40,000 OneWeb terminals for Ukraine. As for policy, if you think SpaceX is acting contrary to US government policy, you think wrong.