Nach dem Zusammenstoß des Weißen Hauses bereitet Südafrika die Bühne für die Genehmigung von Starlink. Eine vorgeschlagene regulatorische Veränderung würde es Elon Musks Satellitenfirma und anderen mögen, eine Lizenz zu erhalten, ohne Aktien an schwarze Südafrikaner verkaufen zu müssen.

„Sell“ shares. I guess you could use the word „sell“ if you consider a trade where the buyer gets them for $0 a share a sale.

It’s amazing how these outlets continually shoot themselves in the foot. No, the *clear corruption* is not enough, lets discredit this story by baking in a fake rasism angle 🙄

SA requires giving historically discriminated against groups equity in businesses. Musk wants to instead “invest in communities” there, SA already allows for this in other sectors. Other satellite companies and ISPs are willing to comply with the equity model

# What the hell is this dumb headline?

Are you all falling for this shitty clickbait?

It was never about selling shares to „black people“. It was all about having to sell shares to the country Starlink is operating in.

It’s the same story in a handful of other countries around the world. For better or worse they require to own 51% of all shares of telecommunication companies operating on their territory.

For very obvious reasons SpaceX is not going to do that.

Hate Musk all you want. There are plenty of reasons for that. But don’t fall for the most idiotic clickbait just because of that.