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 CNN: Elon Musk secretly ordered engineers to turn off his company’s #Starlink satellite communications network near the Crimean coast last year to disrupt a Ukrainian sneak attack on the Russian naval fleet, according to an excerpt from a new biography. https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/07/politics/elon-musk-biography-walter-isaacson-ukraine-starlink/index.html 
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If what Julian Assange did is treason then this must surely also be, and moreso. 
 @e814e036 It is a bad development that a private usurper can determine the course of wars. 
 @e814e036 essentially he is a Russian asset. How could it be that he is allowed to control vital infrastructure? Ah yes the "the private  sector does it best" mantra. Couldn't we give him one of this fragile ego vehicles and some one sane controls the companies? 
 @e814e036 DOD should take note. 

Russia aside,  his dependency on/appeasement of China should be of concern alone. 
 @e814e036 he’s a national security threat 
 @e814e036  An excellent argument for nationalizing all of those satellites. 
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Looks like the industrial is the weak link in the old military industrial complex doesn't it? 
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That seems to indicate that Elon is a foreign agent and is required to register with the DOJ. I'm not a lawyer and know nothing about this law but how can that new tidbit of information mean any thing else? 

A foreign agent also doing work for the US government? Seems like a conflict of interest to me. 
 @e814e036 all I can say is. #NationalizeStarlink 
 @e814e036 Revoke his citizenship, seize his assets and deport him.  #ElonMusk #fascism

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 "Musk is the last adequate mind in North America. Or, at the very least, in gender-neutral America, he is the one with the balls," reacts Dmitry Medvedev, former president of #Russia.

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 @e814e036 So... how exactly did #Musk know a sneak attack was coming? Does #Starlink read all customer data, or just #Ukraine military data? I'd assume Ukraine wasn't running battle plans through #Elon. 
 @e814e036 People have went to prison for FAR less. 😡