Its easier to blame others than accept the truth that people typically get what they deserve; be it portfolio, market, government, community, job, friends, whatever.

>The US government paid for those.
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>A significant amount of them, at very least, and continues to pay.

Yes, the US has kicked in some $7-10M (depending on the reporting) as of recent. Interesting note the calculations largely consider transportation costs whilst the equipment itself is freely supplied by SpaceX - IMO not a bad deal at all. The still-ongoing cost to SpaceX is somewhere north of $20M a month; thus my phrasing "footing most of the bill".

Yea what a horrible piece of crap he is; stepping up practically overnight to deliver free internet access for an entire country when the need was dire and footing most of the bill. Clearly, all those lurking anonymously through social media, dropping political shittakes as they go, are light-years ahead in morality, civility, and general value to humanity.

So the EU wants to throw its hat in nextgen internet access. Bravo, competition is good. State operated telecom ehhhh not so good but, hey, privacy is such a frivolous thing anyways and its not like Europeans had much of it to begin with. However, I bet a steak dinner that says the EU will burn through that $6.2B on bureaucracy alone having not deployed a single satellite.