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Starlink has passed 1 million active users

https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1604872936976154624

Until recently, Iran has had religious-morality police that among other things, arrested women who didn't wear hijabs and let their hair show.

Then the religious-police beat a woman they had arrested to death for not wearing a hijab. And demonstrations broke out all over the country, rising to the level of armed insurrections in some places.

Starlink has not officially been activated in Iran because the government has not approved it. But unofficially it has been. Starlink terminals have to be smuggled in and Elon says that there are now ~ 100 Starlink terminals there, providing uncensored communication with the outside world and unrestricted internet access.

And recently, the Iranian government has pulled the religious police off the streets in hopes of tamping down the demonstrations which seem to have scared the regime to death. And some (not all) Iranian women are removing their hijabs! It's now their choice.

That backtracking religious zealotry in the "Islamic Republic" obviously can't all be attributed to 100 Starlink terminals. But hopefully it helped.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1607435700877815808

Scroll up from Elon's post for an Iranian street scene. (It looks like a normal place!)

(Dec 26, 2022 09:41 PM)Yazata Wrote: [ -> ]Until recently, Iran has had religious-morality police that among other things, arrested women who didn't wear hijabs and let their hair show.

Then the religious-police beat a woman they had arrested to death for not wearing a hijab. And demonstrations broke out all over the country, rising to the level of armed insurrections in some places.

Starlink has not officially been activated in Iran because the government has not approved it. But unofficially it has been. Starlink terminals have to be smuggled in and Elon says that there are now ~ 100 Starlink terminals there, providing uncensored communication with the outside world and unrestricted internet access.

And recently, the Iranian government has pulled the religious police off the streets in hopes of tamping down the demonstrations. And Iranian women are removing their hijabs!

That backtracking religious zealotry in the "Islamic Republic" obviously can't all be attributed to 100 Starlink terminals. But hopefully it helped.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1607435700877815808

if people are caught with a star link terminal they will likely be executed as a spy.

Starlink service is activated in Nigeria, the first country in Africa to authorize it.

https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1620166806722981890

Starlink service is now available in all of Brazil. Formerly it had only been available in parts of the country.

https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1623119475972227072

Gwynne says that Starlink had "a cash flow positive" quarter in 2022 and "will make money" in 2023.

https://twitter.com/SawyerMerritt/status...0619887618

Starlink available in Iceland

This completes Scandinavia, I believe

https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1623671522819989504

Starlink is now available in the Philippines

https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1628192967935799297

Starlink is now active in Rwanda.

Apparently the Rwandan government has plans to equip 500 schools with Starlink terminals.

Starlink is now available in Haiti

https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1638692986014900225