{"id":931465,"date":"2025-05-17T07:22:20","date_gmt":"2025-05-17T01:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=931465"},"modified":"2025-05-17T07:28:58","modified_gmt":"2025-05-17T01:58:58","slug":"elon-musk-furious-as-starlink-stalls-in-south-africa-over-equity-laws-internet-says-you-all-are-just-racists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/05\/17\/elon-musk-furious-as-starlink-stalls-in-south-africa-over-equity-laws-internet-says-you-all-are-just-racists\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk furious as Starlink stalls in South Africa over equity laws, Internet says, \u201cYou all are just racists\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk has once again made headlines, this time for his criticism of South Africa\u2019s Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) laws, accusing the South African government of discrimination against his company, Starlink, due to his race. The billionaire tech mogul took to X (formerly Twitter), calling the country\u2019s refusal to grant Starlink a license to operate a \u201cdisgrace\u201d to the legacy of Nelson Mandela. Musk\u2019s comments, however, have drawn sharp criticism, especially given his own ties to South Africa\u2019s apartheid-era history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk has once again made headlines, this time for his criticism of South Africa\u2019s Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) laws, accusing the South African government of discrimination against his company, Starlink, due to his race. The billionaire tech mogul took to X (formerly Twitter), calling the country\u2019s refusal to grant Starlink a license to operate a \u201cdisgrace\u201d to the legacy of Nelson Mandela. Musk\u2019s comments, however, have drawn sharp criticism, especially given his own ties to South Africa\u2019s apartheid-era history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,64,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-931465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=931465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=931465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=931465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=931465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}