Here's an article about it from the independent. But the gist of it is that the red planet will not follow ANY Earth laws, or recognize the sovereignty of any Earth countries. On the Earth and the Moon they will follow Californian laws (so they have to prop 65 and treat independent contractors as employees* and all that) but once they're on Mars, then it is Elon's Kingdom.
Yes, he said that they will do things based on trust and goodwill and all that, but the man doesn't like the color yellow so he doesn't put all the OSHA warnings in his factories. And he also doesn't care about ADA-able emergency exits in his tunnels. Or keeping his self-driving cars from killing people. What I'm getting at is that I highly doubt that he's going to be making laws that will be nice and fair and treat the colonists fairly, because they're all going to be his customers AND his employees, and boy that's going to suck so hard for the poor kids born there and trapped in all that.
This came up because it was in the TOS for the Starlink project, because he's planning on doing a Starlink thing for Mars, so everyone can have good Internet on Mars.
*Unless 22 passes then I'll be Very Mad
Yes, he said that they will do things based on trust and goodwill and all that, but the man doesn't like the color yellow so he doesn't put all the OSHA warnings in his factories. And he also doesn't care about ADA-able emergency exits in his tunnels. Or keeping his self-driving cars from killing people. What I'm getting at is that I highly doubt that he's going to be making laws that will be nice and fair and treat the colonists fairly, because they're all going to be his customers AND his employees, and boy that's going to suck so hard for the poor kids born there and trapped in all that.
This came up because it was in the TOS for the Starlink project, because he's planning on doing a Starlink thing for Mars, so everyone can have good Internet on Mars.
*Unless 22 passes then I'll be Very Mad