Musk Takes $2.4B Contract from Verizon to Give It to Starlink

https://www.jalopnik.com/1800988/elon-musk-takes-2-billion-contract-verizon-starlink/

by drawkward • 1 year ago

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tombert3• 1 year ago

Ugh. Can this asshole at least pretend that he’s not abusing his position in this administration?

coffeebeanHH• 1 year ago

The good thing is, that while doing so he's not in any kind of conflict of interest :D

I hope a lot more of companies and people start sueing that a-hole.

scarab92• 1 year ago

It does deserve scrutiny, but historically speaking swapping from legacy vendors to SpaceX or Starlink tends to result in cost savings for taxpayers.

I would bet that is also the case in this instance, and the media’s outage needs to be tempered until they do the leg work to actual understand the cost effectiveness of this change, and how the decision was made.

SlightlyLeftPad• 1 year ago

Does it? Do you have a source for that? It’s certainly not money we’ll ever see go back into our pockets.

figassis• 1 year ago

I think the point here is not savings it’s the appearance of (or actual) corruption/capture. It might be cheaper now, because he’s aware of scrutiny, but will it be cheaper when this cools down? Also, isn’t the point of govt bidding that we end up with the cheapest anyway, so that he would win anyway? So why does he need a shortcut?

tombert3• 1 year ago

Nope.

Even if it is cheaper, it’s a very clear and obvious conflict of interest. There’s 350 million people in this country; choose one that doesn’t have a direct financial interest in this. If that person says Starlink, then that’s fine.

The media outrage right now is completely justified.

quantified• 1 year ago

What history do you have?

Jamesbeam3• 1 year ago

Why would he?

The president is pardoning people that attacked police officers and sat in jail for that.

What makes you think he will spend a single day in jail even if everything he did was illegal?

The majority of Americans voted for this. Now they need to deal with the consequences of that action.

Good luck.

marchingkazoo3• 1 year ago

The majority of Americans voted for this.

Not true. Trump got 49.8% of the popular vote [1].

[1]https://www.cnn.com/election/2024/results/president?election...

dzhiurgis• 1 year ago

Warning: source is jalopnik which is absolute garbage when it is anything related to tesla or musk.

drawkward• 1 year ago

They are biased against Musk (IMO, there is reason to be; Musk is biased against our democratic norms), but did Jalopnik make this up?

Facts don't care about your feelings.

inemesitaffia2• 1 year ago

Jalopnik is relying on incorrect information. The primary source is wrong and you can tell

inemesitaffia2• 1 year ago

Misleading, sorry.

Musk Takes $2.4B Contract from Verizon to Give It to Starlink

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