[ExI] The Starlink-Ukraine Scandal, Phase 2

[John Clark]

On Fri, Oct 23, 2026 at 10:45 AM Stuart LaForge via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

* > I don't think the U.S.A. should set a precedent by nationalizing a
> private business, *


*I'm not crazy about that idea either, however I think somebody should be
held responsible for American foreign policy, but as it is now if you ask
Donald about it he says I'm not sure Starlink has been slowed down but if
it has you'll have to ask Elon about it, and if you ask Elon he says I'm
not sure Starlink has been slowed down but if it has you'll have to ask
Donald about it. And Volodymyr Zelenskyy says regardless of who made
Starlink unusable I want it back, so who do I talk to? *


*John K Clark*



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> > On Fri, Oct 23, 2026 at 7:32 AM John Clark via extropy-chat
> > <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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> >> The case for taking Starlink away from Musk gets even stronger
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> I don't like either idea. I don't think the U.S.A. should set a
> precedent by nationalizing a private business, but I don't like the idea
> of a bunch of competing constellations of satellites competing for the
> same market. I am worried that Kessler syndrome could trap us, or even
> AI, planet side. Also as is Starlink is already messing up terrestrial
> astronomy by being so big, I don't think multiple redundant copies of it
> would be a good idea.
>
> I am not saying that the government should let Musk keep a monopoly, but
> maybe they should do something like partition the satellite network into
> multiple companies incorporated in multiple states or something kind of
> like they did with AT&T back in 1984. I am ok with multiple space launch
> companies and additional satellites in orbit, but maybe the government
> should lease out specific orbits the way the FCC leases out RF/MW
> frequencies on the EM spectrum?
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