"Ukraine’s top military-intelligence officer said Russian invasion forces in his country are using thousands of Starlink satellite internet terminals, and that the network has been active in occupied parts of Ukraine for ‘quite a long time,'” the Wall Street Journal reports.
“Lt. Gen. Kyrylo Budanov’s comments in an interview suggest that Russia is starting to acquire Starlink terminals, made by Elon Musk’s SpaceX, at a scale that could cut into a major Ukrainian battlefield advantage."
Prosecute Musk and take away all his government contracts!
Starlink knows exactly where these terminals are at. We know that because more than one satellite is used for a user’s internet call (yes, that is the networking term). The location data is part of the metadata. So either Musk refuses to turn it off and is being an asshole or the NSA doesn’t want him to turn it off because they are running surveillance.
I’m going to go with the former because if it were the latter the Russians would know about it and wouldn’t be using it for anything other than browsing onlyfans.
When the fuck is the US government going to step in and bop this dumb fuck into next week?
Sounds like maybe Ukraine should start shooting missiles at Starlink constellations. They’re aiding the enemy after all.
They don’t even have missiles capable of reaching Russia. Missiles capable of reaching space are a much taller order.
Edit: correction — they just received a delivery, like, today of long-promised Glide missiles with a 90km range. They can hit military targets, but not any towns or cities. Certainly not a satellite in space.
lol. the enemy adopting the same foreign technology that you’re using is just another sign that your war is unwinnable.
Biden should declare war production act, and take over Starlink. JAJ relax bros.
He cannot. US is not at war. Not directly anyway, and proxy wars don’t count.
DPA was used for COVID in 2020 and again by Biden in 2022 for the DoE. Don’t see why it couldn’t be used in this case but I’d suspect the legal challenge wouldn’t be worth it in an election year.
+spaceX
Edit: mine’s not a joke
Trial him for treason. I’d laugh for days.
Don’t Muskrat say Starkink can’t be used for military operations? What’s that? It’s fine for your mates military?
