• BombOmOm@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    Under current conditions Starlink cannot exist in South Africa. If we change a single variable, Musk’s race to black, then Starlink can exist in South Africa (it would be >30% owned by a black person).

    South Africa is discriminating based on race.

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      2 hours ago

      Sure. We can also change a single variable and have him sell 30% of it. And now he can be an apartheid nepo-baby and still run a telecommunications company in the nation his father helped to devastate.

      What’s your point?

      • BombOmOm@lemmy.world
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        38 minutes ago

        We can also change a single variable and have him sell 30% of it.

        And if he sells 30% of it to people of ‘the wrong race’, South Africa still won’t allow in the company. The critical variable is the race of the owner(s); South Africa is demonstrably discriminating based on race.