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Because people like me pay for his service, and if his service stops working we'll stop paying for it.

Because people like me pay for his service, and if his service stops working we'll stop paying for it.

That doesn't make a whole lot of sense, so I'm probably missing your point. Can you clarify?

I am a Starlink customer. I don't love or hate Musk particularly, but when he makes bold claims that foreign leaders are helpless to stop LEO internet I hope he's ready to back that up. In light of recent developments[0] I don't think it's appropriate to assume all adversaries are helpless, and terrorism or not I'd assume Russia feels they have casus belli on Starlink after Musk's clashes with Russian governance and cooperation with NATO allies.

[0] https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/pentagon-official-warns-r...

Sure, go ahead, shoot down a Starlink satellite. There will be another along in a few minutes.

Shoot down every one that passes over country X? Hope you've got a few thousand antisatellite weapons, and you're willing to burn them on this...

Might only take one shot to give us a Kessler Syndrome scenario and trap mankind on the planet.

I thought Starlinks are below geostationary orbit, so I assume any debris should burn sooner or later.

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