Elon Musk has not only “dealt a body blow to the Left’s authoritarian agenda by buying one of the world’s most popular social media platforms,” Twitter, but he’s also helping to enable some ability for Iranian dissidents to communicate with the world. Musk’s Starlink, a “satellite-based broadband service could help Iranians circumvent the government’s restrictions on accessing the internet and certain social-media platforms amid protests around the country.” Thus it allows the truth about Iran to be revealed to everyone.
Musk’s Starlink is revolutionizing Internet technology globally. Last month, the UK began trials using Starlink “to beam high-speed broadband to remote areas of UK.” In 2020, Starlink was already being reported to be a possible “uncensored internet solution” for North Korea, that “could prove a game-changer.”
“Elon Musk says around 100 Starlinks now active in Iran,” Reuters, December 26, 2022:
Dec 26 (Reuters) – SpaceX Chief Executive Elon Musk said on Monday that the company is now close to having 100 active Starlinks, the firm’s satellite internet service, in Iran, three months after he tweeted he would activate the service there amid protests around the Islamic country.
Musk said, “approaching 100 starlinks active in Iran”, in a tweet on Monday.
The billionaire had said in September that he would activate Starlink in Iran as part of a U.S.-backed effort “to advance internet freedom and the free flow of information” to Iranians.
The satellite-based broadband service could help Iranians circumvent the government’s restrictions on accessing the internet and certain social media platforms amid protests around the country……
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Too bad that his real cash cow – Tesla – is now struggling. For starters, Tesla just doesn’t make economic sense, and the people who own it are mainly Leftist elitists who want to laugh in the faces of those of us who need to buy gasoline, w/ all its fluctuating pricing. As a result, once they got pissed at him first for his opinions and then for buying up Twitter, they started dumping plans to buy new Teslas, compounding what was already a problem w/ company sales
If Tesla goes under, I wonder whether all his other projects – SpaceX, Neuralink, The Boring Company, et al, will be able to stay afloat?
Keith O says
Musk seems to delight in giving the middle finger to dictators and bullies, damn, shame about that!!
James Lincoln says
Good thing that it was someone like Elon Musk who had bought Twitter.
Think about it:
It could have been bought by a very rich leftist – and we would have NO “Twitter Files”…