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Lawsuit alleges SpaceX underpays women and minorities
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It's an Elon company so that checks out..
What doesn't check out is why the government still gave them a new contract between this and Starlink and SpaceX colluding with the Russian military against Ukraine
Cause the US government is just a bunch of corporations under a trench coach. They want to privatize space using public money just like everything else on Earth. If it's not space X then it's gonna be Boeing, Ratheon, Amazon, etc that take that position. The age of public space exploration is closing, be ready for enshittification and exploitation in space.
The US government is getting something out of the deal they're not talking about. Probably CALEA-like access to what's going across the Starlink network.
AFAIK, Starlink didn't "collude" with anyone, they just stopped offering free service. I think that was a jerk move, but I doubt there's any kind of political collusion.
Turning it off right when Ukraine was about to launch an offensive, definitely no collusion there what a coincidence on the timing.
My comment was inaccurate, here's a potentially more accurate reason for why Starlink didn't enable access for Ukraine:
Basically, Starlink never operated in Crimea due to US sanctions on Russia, and the Ukrainian president made urgent calls to enable it. Musk continues:
So that sounds reasonable. Starlink never operated in Crimea, and enabling it for Ukraine there could be considered an act of war.
So again, I don't see political collusion here, instead the opposite: Musk didn't want to spark more hostilities.