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Originally posted by shankspony:
Has he just shown the dangers of allowing such an increasingly important piece of infrastructure to be controlled by a single individual?

Im not of the mind as some are, to call for nationalisation, but I do think there should be some oversight when his individual actions can change the course of an international war.

Update- I see Musk is saying he didnt actually deactivate his satellite network over crimea, but rather refused to activate it over sevastopol.

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Originally posted by Saeed:
Well, he doesn’t control GPS satellites!

I thought we were talking about satellite communications.

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EarthLink

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Originally posted by DuggaBoye:

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EarthLink

Starlink

Earthlink is not affiliated with musk

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Originally posted by shankspony:
Has he just shown the dangers of allowing such an increasingly important piece of infrastructure to be controlled by a single individual?

Im not of the mind as some are, to call for nationalisation, but I do think there should be some oversight when his individual actions can change the course of an international war.

Update- I see Musk is saying he didnt actually deactivate his satellite network over crimea, but rather refused to activate it over sevastopol.

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Originally posted by Jefffive:
Also, I think he's lying.

The leaked reports were that he had the affected areas shut down after the attack was underway, leaving Ukrainian drones blind to eventually wash up on shore.

Musk is now claiming that he just denied a request to expand coverage up the coast but I'm very skeptical that Ukraine would have deployed submersible drones on the mere hope of getting satellite coverage they didn't have.

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Originally posted by Saeed:

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Originally posted by shankspony:
Has he just shown the dangers of allowing such an increasingly important piece of infrastructure to be controlled by a single individual?

Im not of the mind as some are, to call for nationalisation, but I do think there should be some oversight when his individual actions can change the course of an international war.

Update- I see Musk is saying he didnt actually deactivate his satellite network over crimea, but rather refused to activate it over sevastopol.

That is very funny.

I agree with you about what he has done about his satellite communications.

BUT, BUT, BUT, are we not forgetting that governments, especially the US has been doing the same thing for donkey's years?

The Chinks are doing it to their own citizens, and all the major big tech firms, Google, Fuckbook etc are complying!