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#ElonMusk Acknowledges Withholding #SatelliteService to Thwart Ukrainian Attack
A top adviser to #Ukraine’s president accused #ElonMusk of enabling Russian aggression, after the billionaire entrepreneur acknowledged denying satellite internet service in order to prevent a Ukrainian drone attack on a Russian naval fleet last year.
#Russia #Autocrats #Fascists
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/08/world/europe/elon-musk-starlink-ukraine.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
The #Starlink #satellite internet service… has been a digital lifeline in #Ukraine …for #civilians & #soldiers in areas where digital #infrastructure has been wiped out.
…an excerpt from Isaacson’s upcoming biography “Elon Musk,” …said the billionaire ordered the #deactivation of #Starlink #satellite near #Crimea’s coast last Sept to thwart the Ukrainian attack. …that #Musk had conversations w/a *Russian* ofcl that led him to worry that an attack on #Crimea could spiral into a #nuclear conflict.
Later on Thurs, #Musk responded on his social media platform to say that he hadn’t disabled the service but had rather #refused to #comply w/an #emergency request from #Ukraine to enable #Starlink connections to #Sevastopol on the occupied #Crimean peninsula. That was in effect an acknowledgment that he had made the decision to prevent a Ukrainian attack.
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@themamiyaman@mstdn.plus@Nonilex Well, he's a Russian stooge, so this tracks.