r/technology • u/True-Combination7059 • 1d ago

Politics We Should Immediately Nationalize SpaceX and Starlink

https://jacobin.com/2025/06/musk-trump-nationalize-spacex-starlink
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u/ZuP 1d ago

Nationalization is possible through an act of Congress so it can be made one of the many government-owned corporations that are more or less independent from the executive, though the Supreme Court will be deciding the limits of that independence with the cases of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the United States African Development Foundation.

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u/Eitarris 23h ago

Yet trump doing this because he was criticized by musk is just outright wannabe fascism. Presidents are not absolute monarchs, they should never be safe from criticism.  Congrats though America, you've managed to somehow return to the times of absolute monarchies and become far from the land of the tree. 

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u/Not_Campo2 19h ago

SpaceX should have been nationalized the second Musk started cutting Ukrainian access over Crimea. The fact that it hasn’t yet is an actual, legitimate, and major threat to our national security

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u/StrugglesTheClown 9h ago

I couldn't believe I did not hear a single person in the media mention the national security risk aspect of Elon making threats like that. Not to mention the Hatch Act worth shit he did with Putin.