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Brian, you are worth every dollar I pay to read your columns. Love your 30 thousand ft view.

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GodBless You, BrianCates!

Cogent.

Detailed.

Researched.

Informative.

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Brian is right. This is Trumps territory, moving like a snake in the grass among corporate rats. I myself would ditch my ISP to get onto a completely different net.

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When others have their own equipment to play the game, the oligarchs cease to control the rules of conduct. May the phoenix rise from the ashes.

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From your lips to God’s ears. I must say that substack has provided me with reliable news and very interesting opinions. I look forward to watching the death throes of the global media.

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Thank You Brian, God bless πŸ™

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Thank so much Brian, your work is remarkable! Love reading your stuff as I learn so much and love reading your brilliant insights!

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Thank you sir. I appreciate your work and ALL you do for the sake of myself and my progeny. God bless you and keep you Brian.

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Jan 26, 2022Β·edited Jan 26, 2022

Apple and Google can remove the app from their stores. They can also set their phones to block the Trump URLs to prevent the sites from being used in a browser. We The People will then have to learn how to use VPN - just like they do in China.

Great article, Thank you Brian.

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Musk will need to go in whole hog on this because he needs a profitable business model to win in space. He doesn't have other integrated revenues streams like Amazon (who is also launching satellites with a goal to control the 4th industrial revolution through tight coordination and orchestration of automated services). I hope they have a master strategist that really knows what they're doing, the funds required, and the ability to execute at "warp speed."

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I like the optimism, and I hope you're right... I'm on the fence about Musk - but he's just one guy. I suspect that in tandem with these developments the Trump Acquisition move will jump in and buy up a lot of the existing infrastructure anyway as the legacy outfits prices crash under the weight of their own criminality, stupidity and hubris. We are cursed to be in very interesting times indeed.

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Brilliant. Great insights. Devin Nunes as CEO has me really wondering exactly what they're up to. So excited to see what's coming!

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Love the optimism, but not sure how Musk and Starlink solve the Google Play Store and Apple App Store issue. Regardless of whether you have an internet connection, if Google and Apple block your app you have a real problem. Not everyone cares to learn how to side load apps on Android, and Apple won't even allow it. Now Truth Social could avoid apps and do everything from a browser if necessary. Or perhaps they have other ideas we have not yet considered.

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So one piece of the puzzle is already coming to fruition. Good call Brian. Now, how to get around the app censoring issues without having to make Truth Social entirely browser based?

Elon Musk says SpaceX’s Starlink satellites active over Ukraine after request from embattled country’s leaders

https://news.yahoo.com/elon-musk-says-spacex-starlink-231101051.html?soc_src=social-sh&soc_trk=tw&tsrc=twtr

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You are my go to guy for news right now. Thank you for your insight.

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Great article Brian! Thoroughly enjoyed it. Do me the tiniest favor β€” stop doing it's for its, as it distracts? and I will donate forever ... well, long time anyway πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡Έ πŸ’‹ 😎

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