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“U.S.-based businesses will now lose out on billions of dollars in new revenues. They only have President Trump to blame” 🔥

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It's insane that ripping up their starlink contract is probably going to have more of an effect than anything else...

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They should never have made the deal in the first place. While Starlink is impressive, it’s run by the most capricious and dangerous man alive. Musk should be seen as a foreign adversary and his products should be banned from any government contracts.

Ontario is situated in a diverse coverage environment with prime access to DePIN and a provincial government that's unafraid to invest in and adopt emerging technologies *of all kinds* across the civic and public sectors.

Here's just one example of their exploration into decentralized coordination that doesn't require access to cloud services or global-scale satellite networks, but uses local EVM nodes instead:
https://wp.docs.superbenefit.org/

I'd say Ontario just has the balls to remain sovereign and meet it's peoples' needs in way that's resilient to economic bullying from its neighbors.