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haele

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8. Elon is trying to corner rural broadband access.

Reply to Paseo Mundial (Reply #5)

Fri Oct 4, 2024, 11:27 PM

Oct 4

The company that provides it gets subsidies as well as profits from the grip it will have on providing that access.
Musk made his billions on government subsidies and monopolization of markets.

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