Do you also complain about buildings ruining your french nights? Or billboards? Or traffic noise? Should we ban all automobiles and buildings and outdoor lighting? Should we ban all combustion engines to ensure there's no amount of smog in the air as well?
Satellites are extremely far down on the list of public nuisances and don't serve any threat to our health unlike smog and carbon emissions.
And even more: some are against "renewal energy" like wind fields because of both!
Satellites are down on public nuisance BECAUSE there's not a lot of it ! But how will it rate when there will be 100 times more ? And then, we will have to live with it for 10 years maybe... and surely more (because you know: once it's done, it's hard to lose the investment)
Just to be clear: maybe it's not the worst idea... but we should ALL talk about it, and not only the US people
Sovereignty in space above 50 km is complex and not really well established, countries have differing claims like bogota declaration etc.
Most countries launch satellites they don't necessarily tell each other.
There is nothing stopping a French company from doing the same as spaceX.
Infact OneWeb is owned by UK government partially and a Indian teleco Bharti Airtel. They manufacturer satellites in UK (a lot of satellites are manufactured in UK) and launch in Russia.
France or any other country does regulate and operators do respect who can transmit/use radio frequencies within their geographic areas.
Can't we learn from history and - for once - try to talk and agree on common rules and management together BEFORE doing something to a world shared resource ?
Satellites before starlink OneWeb were much lesser problem in terms of resources utilization .
Starlink growth is unprecedeted in part because there is little regulations stopping them , so the current model has its advantages
Moreover, there's more and more incidents in space, and it will only grow in the near future
In a way, maybe the "request for comments" should be lead by a worldwide org (ONU based) and not only a US one ?