Satellite TV signals became a hidden pipeline to circumvent Iran’s government-imposed internet shutdown, jamming efforts fail to fully block satellite-based data delivery
Satellite TV signals became a hidden pipeline to circumvent Iran’s government-imposed internet shutdown, jamming efforts fail to fully block satellite-based data delivery
The best way to do this would be to have an international organization operating something like starlink, but not operated by a nazi, and instead provided for free for everyone.
Unless places like North Korea and Iran start blasting hundreds of satellites out of the sky, there is far less that any country could do to prevent people from making transceivers at home.
The problem is that no such international organization would ever be funded and independent.
So, I get where you’re going with this. There’s a problem with it though, albeit one that shouldn’t necessarily discourage the idea. Starlink and such devices can be found when in use. It’s not a passive connection, you need to send data out.
In fact, I believe an individual was convicted in Iran for using starlink recently?
You’d need a forceful reason for governments to leave the people/connections alone.
Satellite can also be disrupted instead of destroyed. Though that’s admittedly a little difficult to accomplish at the scale of an entire country.
For sure there are still problems with it. But IMO the benefits of such an organization would outweigh any of the drawbacks.
A ton of countries wouldn’t go through the effort to block it, it would help those in impoverished areas to connect, etc.
And for those in places that would actively try to stop such a connection, people wouldn’t be trying to connect if they didn’t find it worth the risk. I heard about the starlink/iran one as well.