In a collaboration with the Bloomberg’s Big Take podcast, we present a story on SpaceX&#8217;s Starlink satellite program. It touts itself as a source of reliable internet in hard-to-reach places. But there are some countries where Starlink’s services aren’t licensed, or where the company can’t do business because of US sanctions. And a Bloomberg investigation has found that Starlink kits are appearing in many of those markets anyway – with geopolitical consequences.
Before we unpack that reporting, David, Max and Dana discuss new rules for selling Teslas, a tossed lawsuit and a report alleging that X has been profiting from selling data to governments and police departments, via a third-party data broker, even as it fights a lawsuit related to government surveillance.
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David Papadopoulos

Tesla Takes the Wheel, Starlink Terminals Have a Black Market Problem

In a collaboration with the Bloomberg’s Big Take podcast, we present a story on SpaceX&#8217;s Starlink satellite program. It touts itself as a source of reliable internet in hard-to-reach places. But there are some countries where Starlink’s services aren’t licensed, or where the company can’t do business because of US sanctions. And a Bloomberg investigation [&hellip;]