perihelions 2 days ago

I'd be totally un-shocked if the UK criminalized Starlink (over OSA or otherwise), in part because they've already criminalized it before, in some of their territories[0,1].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42979869 ("Starlink in the Falkland Islands – A national emergency situation? (openfalklands.com)"—225 comments)

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37645945 ("Saint Helena Island Communications (sainthelenaisland.info)"—145 comments)

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  • incone123 2 days ago

    That barely got covered in the UK news, but if wealthy rural people (who don't have good wired or cellular internet) get told their Starlink is getting banned it will be much more newsworthy.

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crtasm 2 days ago

Not the only card according to the article

>"Ofcom can instead ask a court to order other services to disrupt a provider's UK business, such as requiring a service's removal from search results or blocking of UK payments.

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lupusreal 2 days ago

Starlink complies with this sort of stuff in the general case. The only reason they wouldn't in this specific case is if Musk decides to stir up some shit, which to be fair is totally possible.

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net01 2 days ago

Imagine if some tech like DNS over UHF radio What could the UK do?

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  • aleph_minus_one 2 days ago

    > Imagine if some tech like DNS over UHF radio What could the UK do?

    Criminalize this usage of UHF radio.

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  • justlikereddit 2 days ago

    They'll just maintain course on their mission to make everything illegal no matter the technical details.

    Starting with whatever allows criticism of their parody of a farce of so called leadership.

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