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 "Musk secretly ordered his 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 adapted from Walter Isaacson’s new biography of the eccentric billionaire titled “Elon Musk.”As Ukrainian submarine drones strapped with explosives approached the Russian fleet, they “lost connectivity and washed ashore harmlessly,”
https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/07/politics/elon-musk-biography-walter-isaacson-ukraine-starlink/index.html
#Musk #Starlink 
 @e2aff28e When is the US government going to acknowledge Musk’s villainy? Musk was actively helping Russia, seems Elon is fine with those who commit war crimes against innocent Ukrainians. 
 @e2aff28e en dan de timing, hoe wist Musk van een sneak attack op dat moment? Wie lichtte hem in? En hoe was hij in staat op dat moment Starlink op die locatie af te sluiten? Vraagt voorbereiding lijkt me. Herinner me nog de foto's van 'washed up drones' waarbij toen al vragen werden gesteld waarom ze in die staat werden gevonden. Deze antwoorden werpen weer meer vragen op. 
 @e2aff28e musk may not be the entire problem but he is as much of the problem as he can afford. 
 @e2aff28e 

This is fake.

Because it did not turn off and simply was not turned on in Crimean territory.

Starlink is zonal and for it to work the country in question must agree to it and sign agreements.
Russia, for obvious reasons, does not have them signed.