Simply lol. Just so brazen. "The Federal Aviation Administration is close to canceling a $2.4 billion contract with Verizon to provide vital air traffic control services in favor of Elon Musk’s Starlink." www.thedailybeast.com/faa-could-ca... - ThreadSky

jordanuhl.com • 4 days ago

Simply lol. Just so brazen.

"The Federal Aviation Administration is close to canceling a $2.4 billion contract with Verizon to provide vital air traffic control services in favor of Elon Musk’s Starlink."

https://www.thedailybeast.com/faa-could-cancel-24b-verizon-air-traffic-control-contract-and-give-it-to-elon-musks-starlink/

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69sobersally.bsky.social•4 days ago

Verizon's outside counsel for litigation absolutely vibrating with excitement

foodandwine.bsky.social•4 days ago

Verizon is no friend, either. But better than Starlink.

astill73.bsky.social•4 days ago

📌

nickvolk.bsky.social•4 days ago

Corruption aside, this would appear to introduce additional risk since foreign adversaries already have the capability to disable and destroy satellites.

hw10.bsky.social•4 days ago

FFS.🙄

mamuofthewest.bsky.social•4 days ago

In his greedy and fascist hands, we will be at his mercy whenever he decides he wants to punish us with no communication/communications. Go with Verizon!

abreathoffreshair.bsky.social•4 days ago

This is what I've been wondering...ummmm, these private companies aren't suing? Like, what the hell?

swojack.bsky.social•4 days ago

If Verizon sues they know that Trump's FTC will declare them a criminal org and launch a million investigations through the FTC SEC and everyone else.

Probably also open criminal investigations of their executives.

Every dollar in America now belongs to Musk and Trump.

keithdonovan.bsky.social•4 days ago

That's exactly what I was going to ask. A contract is... a contract, and if you break it it will probably lead to a huge court case in which the US government pays.

culturedropout.bsky.social•4 days ago

Conflict of interest much?

mulemama.bsky.social•4 days ago

...FAA was already fragile..then f*Elon & his felon took their chainsaw to it, says it's broken (planes falling out of the sky & near misses) & only we can fix it..gov't contracts are suppose to be competitive bid, not sole source because funded by taxpayer $$$...

jumbalia23.bsky.social•4 days ago

I know this is immaterial to the matter at hand, but that photo they chose has gotta be like 4 years old. He does not look like that now.

ladygreywolf10.bsky.social•4 days ago

Nothing says good business like having all your eggs in one basket. Yeah, that’ll fix the understaffing air traffic control issue.

madhominem.bsky.social•4 days ago

at this point I wonder if an air traffic controller strike would knock sense back into us or hasten the AI takeover and subsequent crashapalooza

scoffmantx.bsky.social•4 days ago

blatant corruption

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