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Assuming Elon isn't part of it or doesn't restrict usage
Free Starlink during disasters for everyone, but for ~~surveilence~~ child protection and anti-terrorism you must accept X as a Certificate Authority.
Starlink and the number of satellites we've got up there could absolutely cause a chain reaction if a few too many were destroyed.
Haha I didn't mean that kind of disaster. But yes star link has the potential to wipe out a lot of LEO until the debris orbits all decay