The vast majority of consumers don’t care. They look for a product which is in their budget, and they think does what they want.

The market will select for companies which and most profitable.

The best thing to do is to pass laws that make this practice of enshitification illegal.

Suckers bet, I’m not taking it.

Your sad attempt at an ad hominem rather proves my point.

Correct. You need to read it again.

Read the comment more carefully stranger.

They cannot simply shift them. There are huge regulatory machines that would need to approve such an event. At most they could cut off using some of their band and use less of it, but that comes at the cost of customer service.

A satellite passing over your head will travel about 4,500KM from horizon to horizon (assuming low earth orbit). Turning off the radios over that span of distance would mean entire countries don’t get starlink traffic any time a radio telescope needs that band, and my suspicion is they need them often.

Honestly, we need to get more of these things off earth to continue this sort of research.

Different laws. In the UK it’s generally easier to sue for defaming someone like Rowling is accused of doing.

The best lies sit on a foundation of truth

Back in my day we had books, that we had to share, and we LIKED it.