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Starlink will be a total game changer when it goes global.



I don't know about that. Nothing stops them from banning the sales of the ground station equipment.


It's probably not that difficult to manufacture and there will be a black market for the tech.


The situation when the Internet is a black market thing is a huge victory for the Russian authoritarian state.

They can afford to have 15% of the population with access to information and what not on the black market. The course of the country will be dictated by the beliefs of the other 85%, which will all buy into the 1000s of kaleidoscopic realities readily manufactured by Surkov & Co, and will all support every single action of the government.




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