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[–] [email protected] 119 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Musk is a cancer on humanity.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The real cancer is the capitalism that birthed him.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 9 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago
[–] firewood010 2 points 9 months ago

Wildcard personalities. A dystopia I have never thought of.

[–] [email protected] 95 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I wonder if he will shut them down to preserve lives.

[–] [email protected] 59 points 9 months ago

I am waiting to find out he violated ITAR.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

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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