> The US Government should nationalize Starlink and provide all Americans with internet service.
This is a repeated trope and more ridiculous each time I hear it. Starlink is a private company that is in the business of selling the US Government as well as consumers its services. You can't just "nationalize" it on a whim; after all, the US isn't Cuba.
GPS was always owned and operated by the US military so it's an apples and oranges comparison at best.
I keep seeing people saying what the government can and can not do. Most of the things that I've been told it "cannot do" it clearly "has been doing".
You seem so alarmed by my proposition to nationalize a private company. Would you have been so alarmed if the government were punishing people for crimes without due process?
I already knew, but rapid downvotes on HN which is relatively rational surprised me.
There was a lovely radio interview of Neil Kinnock (former leader of the British Labour Party) many years ago in which he described the reactions of some Americans to him being a socialist (and not the British equivalent of the Democrats). One woman said "You can't be socialists, you're too nice".
This is a repeated trope and more ridiculous each time I hear it. Starlink is a private company that is in the business of selling the US Government as well as consumers its services. You can't just "nationalize" it on a whim; after all, the US isn't Cuba.
GPS was always owned and operated by the US military so it's an apples and oranges comparison at best.