Musk: Starlink Was Told to Pretend a Black Man Runs the Company马斯克:星链被要求假装由黑人经营才给牌照

64tianwang, Pacific Time, September 20, 2026 (volunteer editors)
【天网美西时间2026年9月20日讯】(天网义工编辑)

(封面:星链锅对紧闭的铁门。底条:NO LICENSE FOR A LIE。)
(Cover: Starlink dish at a locked gate. Bar: NO LICENSE FOR A LIE.)

At 5:52 a.m. Pacific Time on September 19, Visegrád 24 posted a graphic of South African President Cyril Ramaphosa beside Elon Musk. Musk reposted it. By night the original showed about 4,350 likes and 369,000 views. It is not a new license. It is Musk’s charge put back on the table: his birth country will not let Starlink in unless race is paid first.

美西时间9月19日上午5时52分,Visegrád 24发出拉马福萨与马斯克并排的图。马斯克转发了。夜间原帖约4350赞、36.9万浏览。不是新牌照。是把马斯克的指控再摊开:他的出生国不让星链进来,除非先按肤色付钱。

(配图一:Visegrád 24 海报,马斯克原话。)
(Photo 1: Visegrád 24 graphic with Musk’s words.)

Musk’s words, first posted in April 2026 and quoted again yesterday:

马斯克的话,2026年4月先发,昨天再引:

“We were offered many times the opportunity to bribe our way to a license by pretending that a Black guy runs Starlink South Africa, but I have refused to do so on principle. Racism should not be rewarded no matter to which race it is applied.”

“我们多次被提供机会:假装一个黑人在管星链南非,就能买到牌照。我原则上拒绝。种族主义不该得奖,不论对着哪一种肤色。”

(配图二:马斯克转发该帖原文。南非官方失业33.6%,广义失业43.8%。)
(Photo 2: Musk’s repost of the text. Official unemployment 33.6%; broader rate 43.8%.)

Visegrád 24 added the jobs numbers: official unemployment 33.6%; the broader rate, counting people who want work but have stopped looking, 43.8%. The account’s line: Pretoria spends more energy on race rules than on work.

Visegrád 24补了就业数字:官方失业33.6%;把想干活却不再找的也算进去,43.8%。账号的结论:比勒陀利亚把力气花在种族规则上,不花在工作上。

The legal hook is B-BBEE — Black Economic Empowerment. Large telecom firms are pressed to put about 30% in the hands of groups the state calls historically disadvantaged. Starlink says a global satellite system cannot be carved up by local race shares. SpaceX wants the subsidiaries whole. That is the collision.

法律钩子是 B-BBEE,黑人经济赋权。大型电信公司被要求把大约30%交给国家认定的“历史上弱势群体”。星链说全球卫星系统不能按本地种族股份切开。SpaceX要子公司完整。冲突在这里。

South Africa’s side: officials have said Starlink had not finished an ICASA filing; the presidency has called Musk’s posts disinformation. In December 2025 the telecoms minister floated “equity-equivalent” investment instead of a forced local owner. That is a paperwork path. It is not a license in Musk’s hand. The “pretend a Black man runs it” offer is Musk’s charge. No court has stamped it as a completed bribe.

南非这边:官员说过星链没有走完通信管理局申请;总统府称马斯克在散布虚假信息。2025年12月通信部长提过用“股权等效投资”代替强制本地股东。那是一条纸面路。不是马斯克手里的牌。“假装黑人来管”是马斯克的指控。没有法院把它钉成已查实的行贿。

64tianwang comment:
六四天网认为:

Musk is not only one of the world’s top engineers and businessmen. What is rarer is the conscience and the nerve. The easy deal was on the table: put a Black name on the door, pay the cut, take the license. He said no. That is not branding. That is a man who will not sell his conscience for a permit.

马斯克不仅是世界顶尖的科学家与商人。更加难得的是过人的良知与胆量。容易的买卖就在桌上:门上写个黑人名字,交一笔,拿牌。他说不。这不是人设。这是不肯出卖良知,去买一张许可证。

A country with four in ten people out of real work does not need a racial costume for a satellite dish. Internet is a tool. Jobs follow tools. Pretending a front-man owns the company is not justice. It is a tax on competence. Musk was born there. The rule still reads his skin first.

十个人里四个没有正经工作,不需要给卫星锅先套一件种族戏服。网是工具。工作跟工具走。假装一个门面老板拥有公司,不是公道,是对能干的人收税。马斯克在那里出生。规则仍先看他的皮。

If the equivalent-investment door is real, open it in public and issue the paper. If the offer was “put a Black name on the door,” say so on the record. Racism with a new label is still a shakedown. Do not reward it.

等效投资那扇门若是真的,公开打开,把纸发下来。若条件是“门上写个黑人名字”,就拿到台面上说。换标签的种族主义仍是勒索。不要给奖。

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(64tianwang, based on Visegrád 24, Sept. 19, 2026, 5:52 a.m. PT; Elon Musk’s April 2026 posts and Sept. 19 repost; South African government and ICASA public statements)
(六四天网 综合 Visegrád 24 2026年9月19日美西时间上午5时52分帖、马斯克2026年4月发文及9月19日转发、南非政府和通信管理局公开口径)

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