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Musk cut internet to Ukraine’s military as it was attacking Russian fleet (www.washingtonpost.com)

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If you're hitting a paywall, here's a CNN link to the same story: https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/07/politics/elon-musk-biography-walter-isaacson-ukraine-starlink/index.html

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[–] bigkahuna1986@lemmy.ml 82 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The free market will create another satellite network if musk's isn't right! /s

[–] anewbeginning@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

If Musk doesn’t learn to play ball, the us government might well take control of the tech for the remainder of the war. Geopolitics is the game that is played with all the pieces.