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A lot of these telescopes are on top of the tallest mountain around. Which in turn was probably pretty significant to whoever might have been dispossessed of the local area. So they can be surprisingly unpopular.
Like imagine if space aliens showed up, stole all the good land, killed loads of people, and then decided to build tools for their own notion of peaceful scientific exploration on top of Mount Everest, Mount Rushmore, and Half Dome.
Also, that Russian moon lander just crashed, so it could also be some kind of secret space cyber war of countries trying to make each other seem incompetent.