[ferbivore]

You think resistance movements should never have telecommunications access?

[heisgone]

One's freedom fighter is someone else terrorist.

[ferbivore]

One's nominal group in power is someone else's genocidal occupier.

[watwut]

And frequently the so called terrorist is not a terrorist by any reasonable meaning of that world. Like, frequently they are non violent.

[sbarre]

You think the issue is that black and white?

[swarnie]

That's not what OP is saying.

An entity truly in control should be able to deny access to insurrectionists because of you know, being in control.

[IAmBroom]

They are in control of the military, and presumably the capital city area and a majority of the country's resources.

That says nothing about their power to control the satellites overhead.

[jacquesm]

Clearly, they are not in control of SpaceX.