White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt stated the system was implemented “to enhance Wi-Fi connectivity on the complex,” citing poor cellular service in some areas and overloaded Wi-Fi networks. … instead the outlet writes that the White House is having its Starlink service piped from a government data center miles from the compound.

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    9 hours ago

    “Let’s set aside the obvious conflict of interest and ethics questions at play here —” You can’t, and you shouldn’t.

    "We can even skip over the security implications pointed out by a cybersecurity expert in the Times piece. " You can’t, and you shouldn’t.

    “As a practical matter alone, there’s no obvious reason to add another ISP in order to improve Wi-Fi coverage” It doesn’t take an entire paragraph to figure out what’s going on here let alone an entire article.

    As someone from north of the USA border… PLEASE stop this man from stealing your country, Americans.