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Comment by ninininino

Serious question,

> - helping Russia killing Ukrainian civilians;

Have you read a single thing about Starlink usage in the Ukraine conflict?

Because if you had, you'd know that Spacex has actively geofenced usage to allow it within Ukrainian territory but disallow it in Russian and Russian-occupied Ukrainian territory, instituted a whitelist policy coordinated with Ukrainian forces to whitelist Ukrainian terminals but disallow Russian terminals acquired through the black market

https://www.businessinsider.com/spacex-starlink-ukraine-russ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starlink_in_the_Russo-Ukrainia...

They literally provide connectivity to Ukrainian forces and actively try to prevent usage by Russian forces but the moment they put any caveats on how the tech is used, like disallowing its usage by fast-moving objects or for offensive weapon guidance, they are "helping kill Ukrainian civilians".

Perhaps they should have just said Starlink would not work with defense/war usage at all and sat the conflict out and geofenced all of eastern Europe, like many protesters at Google ask their leadership to not do any defense industry deals. Would that have been better from your perspective?

You are actively spreading misinformation.

parent ninininino 10 days ago

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