Musk's interference to protect Russia allowed Russian attacks on Ukrainian cities, and resulted in the deaths of civilians including children - Zelensky advisor.

zcd, 9 months ago

Ukraine should make sure he doesn’t do that again

Beardedsausag3, 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago)

I've been trying to find the source but I'm certain Ukraine have developed their own.. Technologies now? That their drones rely on. If I dig it up ill edit this post.

Edit, found it was a video I'd heard it from. A combination of technology.

Reporting from Ukraine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNhc8beBdD0

NewNewAccount, 9 months ago

Meaning?

jarfil, 9 months ago

Ukraine can stop using Starlink any moment they want… but for some reason they don’t.

How many lives has Starlink saved so far?

some_guy, 9 months ago

There must be some way of charging him. Not that it’d stick, but I gotta think there’s some law that was violated, right?

agitatedpotato, 9 months ago

By the books he should have to register as a foreign agent, and should be penalized for not doing so before engaging in foreign agent activity.

spaghettiwestern, 9 months ago

There is. His actions are against the law and he can be charged. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logan_Act

jarfil, 9 months ago

Except at the time the US Government’s policy was for Starlink to NOT extend coverage outside of Ukraine’s borders.

Musk followed US stated policy by disobeying Ukraine’s request.

UrPartnerInCrime, 9 months ago

I’m not for the guy and think he’s done waaay more wrong than good, but wasn’t everyone against him even offering starlink on the first place? Now everyone is mad that they didn’t use more starlink? Honestly just seems like a lose lose situation right now for him. Had he overstepped his bounds and used starlink as an aggressor, instead of defense like he has been doing (which is one thing the US said to Ukraine, defend your land not attack theirs) people would have dragged him through the mud for that instead.

I’m all for being critical when it’s due, especially for a guy trying to role-playing Edison and his shitty tactics, but idk about this one.

Edit: Here’s a link explaining it a lot more clearly about why the news is making this bigger than it was.

Edit edit: link broken lemmys hard lol

jarfil, 9 months ago

Precisely. For the one time the guy follows the rules… like there haven’t been a thousand other things he’s been doing that deserve criticism… this one is a really weird smear campaign to pick.

And a full year after the fact, at that. Where were all these people in 2022 when all this happened?