Why not? What is stopping them?

Starlink is prohibited from operating in South Africa by the South African government, thus depriving millions of poor rural people of broadband access.

The reason for the ban is that Starlink is required to hand over 30% of the equity in its local business to a select group of locals, based on their race.

"When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators." -- P. J. O'Rourke

Take away the power from Congress and the President, and they can lobby and buy elections all they want.

Agreed, hand-out is a better term than bail-out.

But it's a sad situation when a high-tech company CEO's first job is to scrounge money from taxpayers, while delegating management of its very reason for existing.

When a product or service is deemed too expensive (for buyers), or too cheap (for sellers), what to politicians do? Why, they take taxpayer money and hand it out as subsidies, thus "correcting" the price. What they NEVER do, is to take actions that will correct the cost.

Producing semiconductors in the US is not viable. THAT is the problem that must be addressed. Fixing the problem of a high cost, not artificially lowering the price.

Many people incorrectly think the problem with Aussies is that they are descended from convicts.

Actually, the real problem is that they are descended from prison warders.

Maybe if he had spent less time panhandling for taxpayer money for products for which the market was already willing to pay handsomely?

Maybe if he instead invested his time in engineering?

If your business model is predicated on government bail-outs, you don't have a business.

How do you expect things? How do you know your models are accurate?

Pumping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere is the definition of geoengineering. But you say we cannot predict geoengineering results. A climate catastrophe is upon us, and we know that reducing emissions is not going to happen, is crippling economies, and we don't know the outcome anyway.

Why are we not studying alternatives to GHG reductions? They may actually work, and the will probably cost a lot less. It's time for all options on the table, follow the science and the economics. Or is it not really such an emergency after all?

We apparently have very accurate climate models, so we can know exactly what will happen. Therefore we can be sure before any geoengineering is done.

Saying it does not make it so. No keys, no crypto.

These are the people who want a government backdoor into your data. Because terrorists and children.

Stablecoins are not cryptocurrency. Buyer beware.

Correct, this is the acid test. Can I do everything on a LibrePhone that I could before? NFC credit card tap-to-pay, banking, transit apps, government ID/drivers license, TFA?

All power to FSF and good luck opposing the Leviathan.

Is it too much to ask?

Thank you for this informative comment. Good riddance to TiVo, then, may the rest of their business model fizzle out as well. Maybe if they had chosen a different, more open path, they would have been better off?