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Elon Musk Agrees to Sell a Portion of Starlink Assets to the U.S. Department of Defense (news.yahoo.com)
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U.S. billionaire Elon Musk has agreed to sell a portion of Starlink assets to the U.S. Department of Defense, removing himself from decision-making regarding geofencing Ukraine’s access to the satellite internet service

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[–] fosforus@sopuli.xyz 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This is the way. Musk should never have had such responsibility. Then again, perhaps due to not being a government official, he got those things into Ukraine pretty fast (just 8 days after Russia started the invasion!), and they were successfully used in many places.