Amazon calls Elon Musk's SpaceX lawless, says it doesn't follow rules

Days after Elon Musk called "filing lawsuits" as Jeff Bezos' full-time job, Amazon has sent a regulatory filing to the FCC highlighting all the times when Musk did not comply and insulted regulators. The battle of the tech giants Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos fighting for space dominance got more intense on Thursday as Bezos-backed Amazon sent a list of regulatory filings to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) highlighting all of Musk's past issues with the regulators.

Amazon in its filing highlighted all the instances when Musk did not adhere to laws and had issues with regulators. "Try to hold a Musk-led company to flight rules? You're fundamentally broken. Try to hold a Musk-led company to health and safety rules? You're unelected and ignorant. Try to hold a Musk-led company to U.S. securities laws? You'll be called many names, some too crude to repeat," read Amazon's letter.

Amazon was referring to previous incidents that Musk has had with the Federal Aviation Administration, the Securities and Exchange Commission, and his other company Tesla's home state of California Amazon also said the SpaceX approach involves misinformation, ad hominem attacks, and a belief that it can influence regulators via social media.

Earlier this month, Tesla CEO Elon Musk took potshots at Jeff Bezos for filing a lawsuit against his company. Musk has said that filing lawsuits against his company are Bezos' full-time job. Amazon asked the Federal Communications Commission FCC to dismiss SpaceX's latest amendment to its Starlink satellite network. SpaceX responded by noting that Amazon's response was a delay tactic by a competitor. SpaceX has alleged that Amazon is trying to stifle the competition while "neglecting to resolve the Commission's concerns about Amazon's own non-geostationary orbit (NGSO) satellite system."

Meanwhile, Musk's SpaceX has already started testing Starlink's satellite internet in beta by launching small satellites capable of delivering high-speed internet service anywhere on earth. SpaceX already has 100,000 subscribers. Amazon also wants to offer a space-based internet service called project Kuiper. However, it does not have satellites in orbit.

Earlier this year, Amazon objected to SpaceX's request for lower orbits as the move would risk interference and collisions with its planned Kuiper satellites, which like Starlink are designed to beam internet service from space. SpaceX had then told the FCC that its plans would not increase interference with Amazon's plans and termed them as "still nascent plans." Musk in a reply on Twitter wrote, "It does not serve the public to hamstring Starlink today for an Amazon satellite system that is at best several years away from operation."