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Trump 2.0 To Slather Elon Musk’s Starlink With Billions In Taxpayer Subsidies It Doesn’t Deserve (www.techdirt.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago by BrikoX to c/[email protected]

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SpaceX’s Starlink service can be an absolute game changer for those completely out of range of broadband access. Getting several hundred megabits per second in the middle of nowhere is a decidedly good thing, assuming you can afford the $120 a monthly subscription, $375 (or more) hardware fee, and occasional $100 “congestion surcharges.”

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago

Why should the richest man in the nation pay for his own business’s overhead?🙄