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Soft paywall, more of a minor speedbump.

This is hard to dismiss as a mere "hit piece". The main point is some people expressing concern that one erratic person, sometimes seemingly pro-Russian, has so much control over important infrastructure. The main example is Ukraine, but Taiwan is mentioned too. Despite measured negativity, it is also mentioned how Starlink has helped Ukraine, with a positive comment from Ukraine's digital minister.

It also has some nice animations and pictures (though the Starlink interconnect diagram looks hopelessly wrong).

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[–] pigeonberry 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I believe that international treaties require that each orbiting object be marked with the responsible nation, and that that nation has jurisdiction over it. I don't know how the International Space Station is handled. I could probably quickly search for it, but I shouldn't be spending time on this at the moment anyway (working hours).

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

Yeah, though honestly Elon could actually make his own country at this point and/or launch from international water.