Is Elon Musk’s Starlink and the internet morally neutral?

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When more and more people are isolated rather than connected is the Internet having the opposite result to its so-called “purpose” of connecting us, asks Anna Fothergill

Let’s face it. You can’t do anything without the internet. I fully acknowledge the irony at play here. You are reading an article about the internet, on the internet. It’s all deeply meta and requires much more consideration than just one article can provide. Yet one other recent story, published in The Telegraph about the chilling consequences of Elon Musk’s internet service, Starlink being brought to a remote tribe in Brazil, has caused me to go down a different type of Internet wormhole; is the Internet a moral neutral?

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