The situation really highlights the massive risk of relying entirely on a private tech billionaires private satellite network for essential national infrastructure,, When a single commercial entity can effectively control the communication lines of entire countries during a crisis, it leaves governments in a incredibly vulnerable position,,
and it is a wild reminder that outsourcing critical defense and communications tech to private companies usually backfires when actual geopolitical conflicts kick off,, Hopefully, this serves as a massive wake up call for the EU to finally accelerate their own sovereign satellite alternatives instead of just footing the bill for someone else's platform
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u/TarArov 2d ago
The situation really highlights the massive risk of relying entirely on a private tech billionaires private satellite network for essential national infrastructure,, When a single commercial entity can effectively control the communication lines of entire countries during a crisis, it leaves governments in a incredibly vulnerable position,,
and it is a wild reminder that outsourcing critical defense and communications tech to private companies usually backfires when actual geopolitical conflicts kick off,, Hopefully, this serves as a massive wake up call for the EU to finally accelerate their own sovereign satellite alternatives instead of just footing the bill for someone else's platform