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This doesn't seem like uplifting news to me. Starlink is currently expensive, prohibitively so, and the average citizen in a place like Iran wouldn't be able to afford it. This strikes me as much more of a publicity stunt, than anything else.

If Musk has decided to do it, there's bad news hidden in there somewhere.

Anything by Musk feels like it has a catch these days.

Bold of you assuming Musk is behind these actions, hes more likely too busy "acting ?" like a clown on Twitter.

But if this does have a positive effect you just know Musk will take all the credit should he find out.

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A single starlink terminal can provide dozens or more with internet. pretty dang good internet. If anything comes of this it will be philanthropists providing terminals to the effected is most likely where this leads is my guess.

For some reason I thought this was saying they were protesting about the satelites

Is Musk going to yank the cord or bitch about the cost in a week?

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A week gives him too much credit

Sounds like something religious fundamentalists would do.

Musk is not the future. The men and women risking their lives in Iran are the uplifting news. Musk is a broken promise of futurism.

Ofc, not before bragging about what a humanitarian he is

I was just thinking that this isn’t genuine. He’s in with too many dictators now.

He just wants to be the world’s power broker

This is about retail dishes, already paid for

Ah yes, the famously philanthropic actionof having a government pay for your terminals (with their prices massively jacked up) with the most expensive plan possible, then complaining about the expenses and threatening to cut off access to users in a warzone just to siphon off more aid for your terminals, which have an artificially bloated price and plan.

Philanthropy is when war profiteering meets extorsion, according to Musk fans.

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So the dishes are unnecessary and should be turned off

I wish I had Musk's resources. I would flood places with internet censorship or internet shutoffs with Starlink terminals.

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Jesus, people on this subreddit really think Musk is some kind of Saturday morning cartoon villain, huh? Don’t get me wrong, he’s a dick, but why is it so impossible to accept that maybe one of his companies just did a good thing?

I'm sorry to surprise you with this, but businesses and Governments don't pay residential rates for Telecoms.. especially when they resell via 4G towers.

For example NBN sat in Australia is 200GB for $90 for consumers. For businesses it's $8k for 1TB.

Similarly Viasat is $250 for 250GB but $10k per month for mobile service (cheapest uncapped plan)

Ukraine used to use Viasat at $10k per month. If you think more than 50% off isn't a good deal, find Ukraine something better

Unless you inherited or won the money you wouldn't. Warren Buffett had to get someone else to give out his money.

The drive to take massive all in risks don't correlate with philanthropy

Sure, but Starlink is a service.

Yes, because my dislike of the way Musk has handled similar issues in Ukraine makes me a strawman for your argument.

cool, now they can study https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Revolution

Sorry to surprise you, but if you bump up your prices by two folds, then force your highest rates to siphon government aid as much as possible, you're war profiteering.

When you threaten to cut service in the middle of a war zone, to get even more of that aid, then you're extorting.

Shill all you want, it won't change the fact that Musk bumped up terminal prices to profit from the war, then extorted Ukraine to get even more money, all while trying to spin his actions as philanthropy.

He is scum, through and through.

Because is actions have led us to doubt his associated brands, the domino effect. It's not impossible they did a good thing but not a certainty either.