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Starlink tries to block Virginia’s plan to bring fiber Internet to residents (arstechnica.com)
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Starlink operator SpaceX is fighting Virginia's plan to deploy fiber Internet service to residents, claiming that federal grant money should be given to Starlink instead. SpaceX is already in line to win over $3 million in grant money in the state but is seeking $60 million.

Starlink is poised to benefit from the Trump administration rewriting rules for the $42 billion Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) grant program. While the Biden administration decided that states should prioritize fiber in order to build more future-proof networks, the Trump administration ordered states to revise their plans with a "tech-neutral approach" and lower the average cost of serving each location.

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[-] Revan343@lemmy.ca 41 points 3 days ago

Musk isn't American; he's an international terrorist

[-] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 10 points 3 days ago

But he is, he has both US and Canadian citizenship in addition to S. African.

[-] frongt@lemmy.zip 7 points 2 days ago

As an American, I do not claim him.

[-] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago

That's fine, but he's still a US citizen according to the law.

[-] outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 days ago

He cheated after coming here illegally. Then did a bunch of sex crimes and destroyed american jobs. No. Sorry but illegal immigrants to the torture prison.

I don't make the rules; i just write fanfic about them being enforced evenly.

[-] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago

That doesn't change the fact that he's an American citizen. That's what I was correcting.

[-] outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 days ago

Oh, so the government doesn't kidnap or murder citizens now?

[-] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago

I'm not sure how that's relevant. The OP claimed he wasn't a citizen, I corrected that.

[-] outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 days ago

No, said it was foreign or internatuonal or something.

Which it is.

[-] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago

International implies he's not a citizen, which he is.

[-] outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 days ago

No it does not. It implies activity in and from ither places as well as this one. Which it is.

[-] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago

That's not how these words work.

I get that you don't like Elon Musk, and that's completely fair. But that doesn't make it okay to just change the meaning of words so it can fit your narrative, whatever that means.

If Elon Musk commits an act of terrorism, he would be a domestic terrorist. That's how words are defined.

[-] outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 days ago

how words work

Oh language barrier. I omly know english and kiiiinda spanish, sorry.

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