Musk ordered shutdown of Starlink satellite service as Ukraine retook territory from Russia

starlink has over 150 ground locations (ground satelites that ping service to ones in space, and then down to customer recievers) these locations are easily found by a unofficial map.

their main HQ is in hawthorne, california, a short drive from the LA airport. at 1 rocket road.

do with that information as you will, the ground locations are mostly located all over the US.

Heil, Shitler!

Woooooh. Musks security team is a gold mine. They will forever be employed because of this dudes stupidity.

I can think of one or two reasons they wouldn't remain employed
if that doesnt work, he will just use one of his various 14 human shield babies.
- how sad for you, mister assassin, you have run out of bullets, and i still have ten offspring to use

This is a perfect example of why we have to confiscate the bulk of the fortunes of Sociopathic Oligarchs.

We have this guy operating his own foreign policy in a very sensitive war with nuclear weapons in the mix. The rest of the world shouldn't have to be at the mercy of his arrogance and hubris, waiting for him to get bored with this game, and move onto the next one, hopefully before he blows up the planet.

He has been proven to be massive national and global security threat, who will only become more dangerous as he hoards more money. Just strip his citizenship, confiscate his money and his companies, and deport him to South Africa. Then use his example as a threat to other Sociopathic Oligarchs.

I don't like the precedent that would set, specifically because it would just result in the wealthy hiding their wealth more making it harder to tax
Nah he needs to be publicly executed.
- I'm cool with that, too.
I'm sure trump would love to do that and has back up plans to do that for any or all of the billionaires. Of course, they think they're special and think it won't happen to them.
- Everything Trump has ever done (not said) indicates the exact opposite.

This was Elon Musk's way of declaring himself an enemy combatant.

- I was going to say there's no rules against saying "Elon Musk should be killed" here on Lemmy, but then I saw we're on Lemmy.world, and I think they're trying to be the new Reddit.
  (For any mods, this is not a call for violence, simply stating a thing that isn't allowed. Please read it again if you think I made a call to violence.)
"Ukraine invaded me first" - Musk

Looking forward to seeing EU alternatives for Starlink

Starlink Eutelstat IRIS working hard on it rn
Alternatives would be great! My only concern is the number of satellites that have to be continually launched while older satellites are burned up after just five years. That's thousands of satellites per service provider having to be continually replaced. Seems wasteful, but maybe I'm thinking the resource usage is greater than it really is in the grand scheme of things.
- That five year figure is the time it takes to deorbit if the satellite goes dead, not the lifespan, from my understanding.
- Well if Europe doesn’t do this, US or China will regardless and they won’t care about leaving junk in the space. So it’s a matter of who will profit off that. And also, the EU is doing a lot for the environment already. Maybe it’s time for other countries like India to stop throwing trash directly into rivers now? We live on the same planet. Even if EU achieves the zero-emission state, it only accounts for 5% of the population in the world, so it won’t change that much on a global scale if other countries continue refusing to cooperate
Honestly, someone hurry up and launch an alternative! Chinese are setting up one but I wouldn't trust them either.
- The French government just invested a load of money in Eutelsat to kickstart this about a month or so ago
- I think they should be taken down or taken over by another entity. They were launched under the premise they were a utility and it turns out they're being used military.
  I dont mean the internet access itself but the giving and striping of access to suit a military agenda goes beyond the pervue of an organization claiming to be an ISP or commercial utility.
- For starters, the Great Chinese Firewall blocks access even to lemmy
- Can't even watch porn with Chinese internet, westerners won't survive a day on using that internet without a VPN.

Oh, I remember hearing about this in 2022. There was a ton of speculation about this. I'm glad it's been confirmed.

Hoping one day the MuskRat finds himself behind bars.

When I pointed out the first time this happened, I was pummeled in the comments by people saying that he just doesn't want to be complicit in anything. Okay, but then why did he give Ukraine a bunch of Starlink receivers to begin with? And now this is the second or third time he's fucked the Ukrainians by turning off the service as they're taking back their land.
He a fucking clown. He wants his service used, but he doesn't want any consequences. He just wants to drag the war out and add "Powered by Starlink". He's given himself some control over the conflict, while enriching himself for as long as it continues.
- Yeah, I wasn't really sure of his reasoning here, but I don't think it was very good to begin with.
  Unfortunately, we already know that he has way too much power for a private citizen.
  I think in 2022, he still had some fans, he hadn't quite ruined his image all the way yet, even though most of us could see the writing on the wall. It sucks you got jumped for that, though.
  I'm in the "We should Nationalize Starlink without giving him a dime" camp as recompense for this crime.
- why did he give Ukraine a bunch of Starlink receivers
  Because those receivers were "free" for the Ukrainians but someone else paid millions for that
  Imagine paying $500/month for each "free" receiver because "military applications needs maximum quality" but when the vatnik CEO gets a call from its owner "oh no today it glitched!”
- He likely wants to blackmail Ukraine with it. I now have some guess why the anti-anti-corruption bill was made...

Oh ya, Musk is still a piece of shit.

How considerate of him to remove all doubt
*
<McKenzie brothers>
Oh yah, a real hoser!</McKenzie brothers>
- McKenzie?

Huh, I didn’t have ‘war criminal’ on my list of Shitty Things Musk Is. Let’s just add that right below ‘Proud Nazi’

oh look it's Adolf Twitler
He has been a war criminal for a few years now.
- since fall of '22 when he did the same thing first time, then shortly after met with putins circles in qatar.
It's depressing we had to add that background when he's doing the salute already.
- It's depressing that everybody sees the Nazi salute there but nobody notices the Mussolini stank face. 2-for-1 special on fascism.

Normally, I would have advocated for the nationalization of Starlink and SpaceX as a matter of national and global security, but it's not like the current American regime would do any better. I'm not going to be counting on them to investigate, let alone prosecute the affairs of this Russian junkie-stooge either.

Regardless of who would do better, the entirety of SpaceX and Starlink were paid for using American taxpayer's money and government contracts. We already paid for it, we should own it.
- Ohh, just wait till they privatize weather, mail, prison. hospitals...
  It's gonna be too expensive to live on this planet for YOU.
- Any sources for this? I’d love to read up on it
Brain dead take honestly. Nationalization doesn’t work out 11 times out of 10. Look at NASA, SpaceX ran circles around them with a tini tiny fraction of the funding.
Nationalization does not mean it belongs to “us” it belongs to the government, an entity with motivations, incentives and desires different from “us” the people.
- Could you elaborate on how SpaceX "ran circles around NASA", seeing as how NASA basically pioneered every single piece of modern space technology, and all SpaceX is doing is fumbling to rearrange it like Legos that explode on the launch pad? Lol
- Not tough to see how you ended up permabanned on reddit.
- I actually am skeptical of nationalization. I think the free market is more efficient in most situations.
  But if you think SpaceX is running circles around NASA, well that's so ridiculous that I'm starting to doubt myself.
- Yeah boy get them boots deep I like the sloppy way you kiss that leather.

For everything that Musk touches there has to be some alternative.

He touched Amber Heard..
Too bad she didn't shit in his bed... 💩
- turns out hes crazier than she is. heard is good company with vince mchmon though.
- confirmed Elon musk shit in Johnny depps bed.

He sees the Russian oligarchs, basically medieval duchies where they're a law unto themselves (unless they piss off papa Putin, then it's out the window) and thinks that's a pretty neat deal.

Then he should go live in fucking Russia
- He doesn't have to. He already lives in the oligarchy which is the US.
- The oligarch in a country of oligarchs? Sounds like heaven.

This was already known back then, but it is good to bring it to the front again.

I do kind of wonder if this is a "revenge" article against Musk for him firing up the epstein "debate" on his twitter posting spree.

The Kherson episode is distinct from an earlier report of an incident that purportedly occurred that same September, involving Crimea just to the south, and raised concerns about Musk’s ability to influence the conflict in Ukraine.
Reuters isn't a Trump mouthpiece.

At some point, someone's going to figure out where that on/off button is and turn the tables around on him. History dictates you can only piss so many people off.