Elon Musk says he refused to give Kyiv access to his Starlink communications network over Crimea to avoid complicity in a âmajor act of warâ.
Kyiv had sent an emergency request to activate Starlink to Sevastopol, home to a major Russian navy port, he said.
His comments came after a book alleged he had switched off Starlink to thwart a drone attack on Russian ships.
A senior Ukrainian official says this enabled Russian attacks and accused him of âcommitting evilâ.
Russian naval vessels had since taken part in deadly attacks on civilians, he said.
âBy not allowing Ukrainian drones to destroy part of the Russian military (!) fleet via Starlink interference, Elon Musk allowed this fleet to fire Kalibr missiles at Ukrainian cities,â he said.
âWhy do some people so desperately want to defend war criminals and their desire to commit murder? And do they now realize that they are committing evil and encouraging evil?â he added.
The row follows the release of a biography of the billionaire by Walter Isaacson which alleges that Mr Musk switched off Ukraineâs access to Starlink because he feared that an ambush of Russiaâs naval fleet in Crimea could provoke a nuclear response from the Kremlin.
Ukraine targeted Russian ships in Sevastopol with submarine drones carrying explosives but they lost connection to Starlink and âwashed ashore harmlesslyâ, Mr Isaacson wrote.
Starlink terminals connect to SpaceX satellites in orbit and have been crucial for maintaining internet connectivity and communication in Ukraine as the conflict has disrupted the country infrastructure.
Nationalize Starlink and SpaceX
We already had a nationalized SpaceX. We defunded it and gave grants to private companies like uh⊠SpaceX.
While I agree that NASA shouldnât have had any funding cut, supporting a privatized space industry isnât a bad thing on its own.
But giving Elon Musk a defense contract was a fucking stupid idea.
Nope, it comes from Old French which used the same âsâ as Latin whereas the âzâ is greek. The French standardised to the âsâ in the late 1600 which informed the English which had bounced between the Greek and Latin but formalised on âiseâ not âizeâ.
So, nationalise is the correct one here.
People learn words in different fashions. In Jeopardy (an American quiz show) they accept written answers in the last round that are spelled incorrectly as long as itâs clear, phonetically, what they were trying for.
This is done in part because some people learn words by hearing them and not seeing them written, just like some people might have read a word but not know how to pronounce it.
Did you comment this to be superior or be helpful because it comes across as superior.
To add the same low level of information and discourse that all of these click bait, musk hate posts of late contribute to ânewsâ and âtechnologyâ.
Did you comment to feel superior or were you feeling left out?
Elon Musk says he refused to give Kyiv access to his Starlink communications network over Crimea to avoid complicity in a âmajor act of warâ.
So, in the classic trolley problem, Elonâs choice is to remove the track switch that his company produced so that no one else could use it to make a choice.
âSorry, guys. Looks like those innocent civilians tied to the tracks are going to have to die so that I am not tangentially and tenuously responsible for your choice to save them in exchange for the deaths of Russian soldiers attacking your sovereign lands and people (cough and lose money from the Kremlin as a result cough)â
Thereâs no ârightâ answer to the trolley problem. But there are definitely wrong ones.
His logic seems to be that Ukraine is to blame for all the bloodshed of the Russian invasion because they didnât roll over and surrender without a fight.
Victim blaming. Classic asshole move.
Did Elon have a stroke at some point that we donât know about? Itâs amazing how consistently he makes a huge ass of himself now.
One of his kids came out as trans, his partner left him and later dated a trans woman, and he got caught trying to give one of his employees a horse for sex, so he decided to join the political side that hates trans people and doesnât hold people accountable for being shit as long as they continue waving the banner.
Thereâs no ârightâ answer to the trolley problem. But there are definitely wrong ones.
That depends on your moral basis.
Fair enough. My moral basis says that using my personal power and authority to undermine deals that I specifically sought to make in the first place, upon which others are dependent for literal survival, in order to backpedal my involvement in their survival attempts which I knew from the beginning was the entire point of the deal, the result of which directly and predictably leads to the deaths of hundreds/thousands of innocents⊠I consider that a moral failing. How about you?
This is the same bullshit take propagandists and Musk himself are spreading.
Musk sabotaged an active military operation in an effort to save Russian assets and materials, by disabling access to Starlink in that area, to halt the operation. And then refused to undo what he did.
All to protect Russian assets in an illegal undeclared war of annexation where Russia is the aggressor.
Musks actions enabled the death of thousands of civilians in Ukraine and likely will cause far more through his actions which extend how long this illegal invasion will continue.
Musk should be stripped of his US citizenship and booted right back to South Africa. America stands by Ukraine, South Africa tries to pretend they are neutral but the agreements they have with Russia and the opinions of rich fuck South Africans like Musk make it clear they stand with Russia.
And anyone who keeps spreading these press releases with his propagandist take on the subject rather than saying how things actually happened, should be ashamed of themselves and monitored until all this is over.
He should be charged with treason or something similar for doing this during wartime to a US ally. Enough of this narcissistic POS.
Private citizens donât get to make those decisions.
Itâs time to nationalize Starlink & SpaceX.
