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Can you bring a Starlink and then just don't really care?


Nope. Starlink shuts down over china on the satellite side. Tesla has a huge presence there and they also threatened to shoot the satellites down (which they've done before) if starlink provided internet access there


To clarify for readers: China has never shot down someone else's satellite. They've only destroyed one satellite ever and it was their own.


and creating a ton of space debris in the process. oups


Maybe you can, but the Chinese "VPN law" used some wording like "unauthorized communication channels" without further definition. They can just call Starlinks "unauthorized" and start confiscating them, just like what they did to the satellite dishes for receiving foreign TV signals.




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