Byrne Hobart makes the case for Starlink’s business model:

The line between a vision and a sales pitch is always blurry, and Elon Musk is unusually good at using this to his advantage. There’s a reasonable case that Starlink is just a natural way to amortize the fixed cost of SpaceX’s investment in launch infrastructure. But a sufficiently compelling sales pitch has a way of coming true, and if part of the pitch of Starlink is that it’s a censorship-resistant communications medium that creates access to the global Internet, not individual countries’ more...

An interesting detailed analysis on SpaceX’s Starlink project, which intends to put tens of thousands of microsatellites in orbit to provide a blanket of global internet connectivity.

Starlink’s world-spanning internet will bring high quality internet access to every corner of the globe. For the first time, internet availability will depend not on how close a particular country or city comes to a strategic fiber route, but on whether it can view the sky. Entrepreneurs the world over will have unfettered access to the global internet irrespective of their own variously incompetent and/or corrupt government telco monopolies. Starlink’s monopoly-breaking capacity...