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Starlink kit found amid wreckage of Russian drone (www.theregister.com)

submitted 1 month ago by potentiallynotfelix@lemdro.id to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 74 points 1 month ago (1 children)

FYI: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/sep/07/elon-musk-ordered-starlink-turned-off-ukraine-offensive-biography

[–] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 27 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This article was amended on 14 September 2023 to add an update to the subheading. As the Guardian reported on 12 September 2023, following the publication of this article, Walter Isaacson retracted the claim in his biography of Elon Musk that the SpaceX CEO had secretly told engineers to switch off Starlink coverage of the Crimean coast.

IIRC Musk didn't switch it off, it wasn't turned on in the first place and Musk refused to turn it on when the Ukrainian military reqeusted it.

Musk is a shithead but not for this reason.