How? By shooting down satellites?
The can ban the sale of terminals. They can scan waves.
In both cases I assume the issue at stake is the freedom of communications. I'd hope to have both technical means to communicate (and hide those communications) and enough support on USA side not to pressure SpaceX to deny service worldwide.
We'll see how it goes.
However, the easier option is to just scan for the right EM waves on the ground and go after the people using the illegal network.
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But it's a crappy enough move, it's not certain they would.
However, the easier option is to just scan for the right EM waves on the ground and go after the people using the illegal network.
So someone just has to figure out a way to hide the uplink.
This is a country that has the GF. One that routinely oppresses its citizens. One that gives its citizens a social rating that can prevent them from traveling etc etc. If there's one thing I'm sure of, it's that the CCP will find a way of stopping access to this. If it takes hacking into SpaceX, shooting down 12K satellites, etc, it will. Maintaining power is what the CCP does.
"hide the uplink"
Kind of hard to hide EM transmitters that aren't going to be designed for special ops teams...
