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But sat around and took months if not years to shut off Russian terminals being used against ukraine
this post was submitted on 28 May 2026
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I hate the idea of arguing in Musk's favor, but Starlink use by Russians has generally been achieved by them obtaining foreign terminals.
And every single Starlink terminal is GPS traced to within 15 feet. Starlink does not work without exact GPS data on every terminal to direct the phased array antennas.
They know what terminals Russia have been using. They've always known.
He doesn't have "ethics"...he just has contracts with both sides in every conflict. He's probably looking at liability issues, that could cost him a lot of business.
He's probably looking for a payout.
OK. Did Russia pay this fee while they were attacking Ukraine? Or is this a special US government fee because rorts?
That's when he noticed he doesn't charge a government fee.
So same exact product, 1000x the cost.
The US military is designed to sap as much public funds and hand it over to stockholders. it's a scam that can't win wars.
Sure, it's all stupid, but I DO want to see him pick a fight with Trump again so he can once again back down with his tail between his legs at the braying of a pedophile blob who's being outnegotiated by a nation a fraction of the size of his own via meme videos.
- US military is using starlink to target weapons
- There is no way that they will stop doing that
- In every conflict from now on everybody who has to fight against the USA and wants a chance to survive needs to disable Starlink
- We saw with Russia that every major power needs its own network under its own control. You can't wage a war when the USA is able to shut down your access
- In such a war, the USA needs to destroy the enemy constellation
- Kessler syndrome will happen in our lifetime
There is no way that they will stop doing that
Shooting down those satellites is so easy even a dog in Nebraska could do it.
Kessler syndrome will happen in our lifetime
Luckily these satellites are in very low, quickly degrading orbits so any cascade of destruction would mostly only take out this and similar networks before burning itself up within a few years.
In every conflict from now on everybody who has to fight against the USA and wants a chance to survive needs to disable Starlink
Iran has been fighting well enough by working around Starlink. Plus, the easiest way to disable it is by jamming frequencies.
Lol.
As usual musk plays the role of pretending that starlink is a civilian network and non totaly planed and funded by the DoD from the start.
He is nothing more than the sock puppet the DoD put on state so the world would let allow the usa to bild the biggest military project ever done in space without the world complaining to much about it.
Nobody believes that. Musk has entered the arena as a belligerent and should be treated accordingly.
So he's pissed that someone violated their terms of service?
oh my.
Musk needs to stfu and get back to making full self driving work. Everyone who owns a tesla is owed that, Elon, get your dumb lying grifter arse back to work.
Everyone who has bought a Tesla recently is a fucking idiot who made a choice to give money to a nazi
He became the Tesla CEO 18 years ago. That's not my definition of "recently".
I agree
I've always thought that he was a cunt, because I have followed scientific literature for many years
But I can understand how most people believed the PR campaign
He was seen as a visionary because that's how he was marketed
The fact that he never came up with anything himself, and his truly hideous background was kept pretty quiet
there is no-one who bought a tesla that did not know they were supporting an actual active nazi.
I'm sure there's loads of ignorant people who still has no idea. But the early adopters were (according to my anecdotal evidence) Musk fans who did the mental gymnastics of "everything good with Tesla/SpaceX/PayPal/... was Musks ideas and works, and any bad things are the work of his underlings". It was no secret back then that he came from blood money and was born and raised under apartheid. Didn't stop them from buying the cars.
no. he needs to follow his leader and Tesla should come back from the dead and personally shit in every tesla owner’s mailbox.
capitalists always gonna capitalist.
The irony is that Iran's Shahed drones were probably... using GPS.