# Now that Elon Musk has bought Twitter - now the Pit edition (Part 1)

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**Created:** [April 25, 2022, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442 "2022-04-25T22:50:17Z")\
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> [@Atamasama](#):
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> In theory that **might** be done via Starlink, providing low cost or even free internet service to the poor and underserved

Starlink isn’t doing jack for free outside publicity-hogging “pilots”, and for the rest, “affordable” is in the privileged Western eyes of the beholder (so-called because they expect the Global South to be eternally _beholden_ for their “generosity”, no doubt )

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