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Wont nation states be able to use basic triangulation to find out where people are and prosecute them heavily?

Also wont nation states be able to tell Starlink to not transmit in china if they dont want Tesla factory nationalized or other similar threats?

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Nation states will jam Starlink ; GPS jamming is easy , there's no reason to thing Starlnk jamming will be much more difficult.

GPS and LEO satellite internet are very different. GPS is meant to be received by near-omnidirectional antennas anywhere on the planet. Starlink satellites will place multiple spot-beams acting as cells and customer receivers are high directional as well.

Jamming Starlink would require satellite tracking and high gain antennas. And you would have to have separate jammers for each spotbeam that the starlink satellite casts on the ground.

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