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Summary
Elon Musk’s Starlink is positioned to take over a $2 billion FAA contract from Verizon to modernize air traffic communications, raising concerns over conflicts of interest.
Musk criticized Verizon’s system, as Starlink equipment is already being tested at FAA sites without review about its benefits and drawbacks.
Former officials warn of insufficient oversight, and ethics waivers have allowed SpaceX employees to work on the project despite potential financial gains.
Verizon’s unawareness of the contract amendment or termination further raises concerns about Musk’s influence due to his companies’ extensive federal contracts and regulatory dealings.
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So? Elon Musk using his Unelected Government Position to funnel BILLIONS of our Tax Dollars into HIS Pockets is NOTHING when compared to HUNTER BIDEN getting a JOB in CHYNA!
Congratulations, every US passenger is now a free beta tester for SpaceX, no wait needed.
- Elon
Because forcing everything to go over satellites is so much more reliable than cables on the ground…
I’ll never fly again.
That was my takeaway as well. And Musky enriching himself with more government money.
To Rob us all. He’s not taking over a contract, he’s robbing the American people.
“Fix”
This is very simple. SpaceX needs to be excluded from the contract because there is a conflict of interest. Musk can advise the government or SpaceX can apply to get the contract. You can’t do both.
The same should apply to Trump, but he’s been ruled above the law. However, Musk is not above the law, so this is very easy.
he’s been ruled above the law
That means that it’s up to us to hold him accountable, since there is no legitimate law.
So is it the Republican controlled Congress, Republican controlled Supreme Court or Republican controlled President that will be getting on this?
None of the above is likely to do it. But it should be spelled out very clearly to the public what the resolution should be.
Fix? Elon Musk…? Fix?
“Fix”
Fix- Informal. to arrange or influence the outcome or action of, especially privately or dishonestly: to fix a jury; to fix a game
https://lemmy.ca/comment/14682818
(I commented previously, this is just the start)
Musks long dream of x, the “everything app” (ie, the app all must use to buy, sell,travel,work,receive medical care,and be surveilled by means of starlink, and all federal systemds will run through, etc)is soon to come to fruition.
Kinda sounds like the mark of the beast.
https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/26/23808796/elon-musks-x-everything-app-vision
https://landfamilyhome.substack.com/p/a-household-guide-for-cyber-defense
Possible motive: “X” —> American WeChat Like other crimes, with cyber attacks it is important to identify a motive to understand your attacker better and anticipate their next move. In this attack I believe the motive is a forced cutover of critical infrastructure systems in banking, telecommunications and travel to a centralized model. In plain terms what I’m saying is that DOGE wants to migrate American federal systems to X using the WeChat model where all network and transactional systems are centrally routed and processed. I believe this is the case because of these signals: Elon Musk said he was going to do this with X, see reporting here from The Verge. Apple silently released an update as part of 18.3 on Friday that includes Starlink support. What this could look like from a rollout perspective is: X is assigned as the communications authority for all government agencies, this is already underway: NTSB exclusively communicating via X. Route all federal transactions through X: This is underway as DOGE has taken control of the federal treasury and pushed out the acting director. Create X profiles that map to the US citizen records database, to streamline management of identity and act as proof of citizenship. Standardize on a government monitored telecommunications network, Starlink, to allow network traffic control of all domestic communications, giving federal agencies (or just DOGE) the authority to censor information at wilWhat’s with the highlighted words?
It’s an excerpt from one of the articles. For whatever reason when I pasted it formatted as code rather than quote.
At least there’s the silver lining that it’ll hurt Verizon. My enemy’s enemy is still my enemy in this case but I can make popcorn and laugh at the loser.
