• survirtual@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Yes, starlink giving poor communities in the Amazon access to the rest of the world is good.

    Yes, starlink giving internet to rural people who have been duped, manipulated, lied to, and cheated about getting internet for decades is good.

    Yea, starlink undercutting greedy, corrupt ISPs with a service they had deemed “technologically impossible” and “financially infeasible” is good.

    Yes, innovation is good.

    Yes, internet access is good.

    I am sad that people with telescopes are slightly inconvenienced and have to add in dynamic filtering to correct for minor anomalies of satellites moving by every 10 minutes. It is so sad.

    But hey, look on the bright side? For your minor inconvenience, millions more people are now connected. They can get help when something goes wrong. They can participate in the modern economy and get access to more food and medicine. They can share their culture and learn from other’s. Remote workers can be among them and bolster their lifestyles.

    So at the cost of a small inconvenience that can easily be corrected, the lives of millions are improved. I could write all day to this tune but if you can’t see such an obvious thing, there is not much I can say to you. I can just hope any lurkers reading feel seen and heard, cause I am really tired reading the nonsense against such a powerful gift to humanity.