Brickbat: No Bars

Equatorial Guinea's government imposed a year-long internet outage for Annobón, an island province, after residents complained about a construction company's use of dynamite. Protesters wrote to the government with concerns about the explosions, which they say pollute their water and farmlands. Instead of helping, authorities responded by cutting off the island's internet access, which has impacted hospital services and banking, and caused residents to face high phone bills
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Elon, can you help?
Dr Fauci just got a chubby
This is all OK, even GREAT... 'Cause Demon-Craps did shit first and did shit worst!
That should (D)emonstrate that you (D)o not (D)enigrate the (D)esignated ones.
This (R)eally (R)eplicunts that (R)egal (R)ulers (R)ape (R)eason (R)epeatedly!
Fernando Poo! It figures.
No Bars? No sarc.
Now they're in the same boat as rural America!
This is true. Starlink provides me with awesome high-speed internet, while cell service remains terrible.
It's like the jawboning of Jimmy Kimmel except not as bad (and only deserves a brickbat) because the people involved don't really have free speech and don't matter the way Jimmy Kimmel does.
Sounds like they are having a blast.
This is the sort of thing that happens when you don't repeal whatever Equatorial Guinea's version of The Jones Act is.
If backwards Africans would just learn to free trade and cabotage like the Free Speech-loving Europeans we wouldn't have this problem.
Well, at least they have real bars; you know, alcohol.
A beautiful example of Shut Up, He Explained and FYTW.