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Eugene

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Fri Sep 8, 2023, 11:32 AM Sep 2023

Musk acknowledges he turned off Starlink internet access last year during Ukraine attack on Russia m

Source: The Hill

Musk acknowledges he turned off Starlink internet access last year during Ukraine attack on Russia military

BY BRAD DRESS - 09/08/23 9:40 AM ET

Elon Musk on Thursday acknowledged turning off internet access from his Starlink satellites during a Ukrainian raid last year on a Russian naval fleet, saying he did so to prevent SpaceX from being “complicit in a major act of war and conflict escalation.”

Musk responded on his social media platform X to new details from an upcoming book that indicated he ordered his engineers to shut off communications network before the attack off the Crimean coast.

“There was an emergency request from government authorities to activate Starlink all the way to Sevastopol,” Musk wrote on X, the platform previously known as Twitter.

“The obvious intent being to sink most of the Russian fleet at anchor. If I had agreed to their request, then SpaceX would be explicitly complicit in a major act of war and conflict escalation,” Musk wrote.

An excerpt about the raid from American author and journalist Walter Isaacson’s upcoming biography on Musk, titled “Elon Musk,” was published by CNN.

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Read more: https://thehill.com/policy/defense/4193788-musk-acknowledges-he-turned-off-starlink-internet-access-last-year-during-ukraine-attack-on-russia-military/

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Musk acknowledges he turned off Starlink internet access last year during Ukraine attack on Russia m (Original Post) Eugene Sep 2023 OP
Musk is now and will always be a creep. He has never done anything EVER to prove otherwise. efhmc Sep 2023 #1
This is way more than being a creep. He's a US citizen now... brush Sep 2023 #2

efhmc

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1. Musk is now and will always be a creep. He has never done anything EVER to prove otherwise.
Fri Sep 8, 2023, 11:39 AM
Sep 2023

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brush

(57,471 posts)
2. This is way more than being a creep. He's a US citizen now...
Fri Sep 8, 2023, 01:05 PM
Sep 2023

has gotten rich here and by doing this he's giving aid and comfort to an enemy of the US, Russia.

That's one of the definitions of treason.

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