Musk is a cancer on humanity.
It can be both - a terrible amoral system that concentrates wealth to the point that major world events are driven by wildcard personalities of rich idiots. And then, the rich idiots themselves.
I wonder if he will shut them down to preserve lives.
I mean, I’m not a Musk fan in the least, but the article does say that the receivers are being sold through an intermediary in Dubai, perhaps unbeknownst to Musk and SpaceX.
Because of how starlink works, they have to aim satellites specifically at areas for data to flow. They have the ability to turn regions on and off (ie, satellites over China).
They know exactly where the transceivers are and based on movement patterns, probably which side they are on.
Unless he is feeding that position data to the Ukrainian military, he knows exactly who is using them and letting it happen. He didnt sell them the dishes, but he lets them be used.
Are you saying there is no authentication whatsoever to use it and anyone with the receiver in Ukraine can just use it?
The United States.
Of course, you could also argue that Musk is a traitor to all rational creatures everywhere, and that his existence is an act of blasphemy against all that is good and moral in the world, but that’s a separate issue.
He’s not an elected official and AFAIK doing business with Russia would be a sanctions violation which does not equate treason.
He’s just doing what the system allows for rich assholes to do.
He is a traitor to humanity, he sells himself for money and power while shitting democracy, human rights, freedom. And yes, fuck Putin, Putin is the worst humanity has to offer, murder, lack of freedom,…
Yeah well by that logic the majority of the leaders of the world are traitors to humanity.
I am waiting to find out he violated ITAR.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Ukrainian soldiers say Russia’s military have begun using Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite communications network in Ukraine, according to a journalist in the country.
“They began to deliver Starlink en masse, via Dubai, accounts are activated, they work in the occupied territories,” one of the soldiers with the X handle @Serhij wrote, referring to the four regions of Ukraine that were illegally annexed by Russia in the fall of 2022—Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia.
Musk’s SpaceX deployed its Starlink satellites to help provide Kyiv with internet service in the early days of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
A source in the satellite communications market, familiar with the situation, told ComNews that Starlink systems are being delivered in bulk to Russia, and named Dubai as the location for the wholesale purchase of the equipment.
“Before being imported into Russia, terminals are registered under various foreign companies (Cyprus is often included), after which an account is activated under any name, often a fictitious one,” the source said.
Musk previously refused to allow Ukraine to use Starlink internet services to launch an attack on Crimea to avoid complicity in a “major act of war.”
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