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A million new SpaceX satellites will destroy the night sky — for everyone on Earth (news.ubc.ca)
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[–] piranhaconda@mander.xyz 3 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

It has always applied to LEO. Scifi media transformed it into the idea of "nothing will ever be able to leave the planet ever again" but the original studies that the phrase originated from included LEO. Despite the fact that there is enough atmosphere that a lot of the debris would experience sufficient drag for their orbits to decay within several years, not decades or millenia, it would still have huge impacts.