by Chris Black
If your wartime apparatus is dependent on a consumer grade internet connection, maybe you shouldn’t be fighting.
Kind of like using a $20 game controller to operate a submarine.
There was an emergency request from government authorities to activate Starlink all the way to Sevastopol.
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…
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) September 7, 2023
People who believe Starlink was created to give fast internet access to people living in the middle of nowhere are stupid.
Starlink has been a military operation from day 1.