Starlink Is a Big Deal
Is the optimism about being able to bypass censorship really valid? SpaceX may be resistant to the censorship demands of <i>some</i> governments, but a lot of other things need to happen to get someone online.<p>To begin with you need to acquire Starlink&#x27;s receiver, which probably makes it inaccessible to North Koreans for example, and difficult to acquire for citizens of any country that has efficient import controls.<p>Then you have to use it without being detected. I have no idea whether that is easy or hard -- can you put the receiver in a covert location? Can the government drive a van around your neighborhood and detect signals going to and from the receiver, or triangulate it in some other way?<p>If it bypasses existing censorship infrastructure in a given country and Starlink refuses to comply with censorship, you can guarantee that country <i>will</i> make it illegal, and in some cases introduce some scary penalties for using it (i.e. prison).