On October 14, 2026, SpaceX imposed an unannounced speed limit on military-grade Starshield terminals used by Ukrainian forces, automatically cutting internet connectivity for terminals moving faster than 100 mph (160 km/h) and disrupting several high-speed military drone operations.
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Elon is probably upset; when Ukraine destroyed that bot center they killed all his friends.
No one like Elon Musk should ever have the power to do this.
He has bricked people’s Tesla’s because they were mean to him. Idk why people keep giving this rapist a pass.
I believe this is a result of private infastructure. If they had their own internet satelites, they wouldn’t be at the mercy of some dickhead who has something to gain by manipulating their access on a whim.
The issue is resources. Ukraine has been trying to develop it’s own satellite comms network but lacks the resources particularly in the middle of a war.
It’s absolutely insane to think 1 crazy wackadoodle has more resources at his fingertips than any government entity in the world. Really goes to show how badly they need go be taxed, hell were past tax it’s time to just take their fucking bag and redistribute it
Take it from someone from the one country that developed then abandoned indigenous space launch capability; space infrastructure is insanely expensive.
Black Arrow was actually good though, and Britain was mad to cancel it. Also cheap for its day, the government was spaffing money on far worse at the time.
You have been banned from c/Conservatives.
SpaceX employees seduced by Mars missions are now supporting authoritarianism, speech suppression, electoral rigging, violent invasions, and petrocracy.
Funnily enough, some years back a recruiter came knocking for me to interview for SpaceX. I was not especially interested (not due to any particular insight to the true Musk or anything, just didn’t feel like it), and the recruitor seemed sincerely baffled why I didn’t immediately fall to the floor in awe at the possibility.
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Yeah, at the time a huge factor was that I had like 4 years equivalent pay in bonuses that I would have had to forfeit, so a big hiring bonus would have been needed to offset that.
Plus I hate interviewing anyway.
Further I have had some experience with a “hot” employer and my experience was that they knew how coveted they are and generally had an attitude of “you should be grateful you get to work here at all” compared to a “wow, you actually are willing to work for us?” Attitude at a less well regarded employer. I have no insight on SpaceX, but direct or indirect experience with a handful of similarly “amazing” employers, so maybe SpaceX might have been different, but based on the musk treatment is twitter employees, I’m suspicious.
All this to be Elon’s serfs and concubines. What losers.
The usual sci-fi trope is that earth is the aggressor towards mars or other settlements. We need a new story about how all the wannabe Atlas Shrugged/40k mechanicum/racial preservation types go to Mars and are now being a bunch of jangoistic fascists.
I got annoyed by all the still existent butwhataboutistanists and haveyetnotseenanyrealtruthbutbelieveinbbcofallsources bros on lemmy, so I analyzed twitter posts of the big talking head himself:
Note the log scale. Now let’s ponder the ramifications of the coincidence of big talking head losing fame in the exact same day as missiles strike random data center.
Edit: more info: https://lemmy.world/post/53119699
Bro
Thats fucking wild
good to see some actual data instead of hearsay and anecdotes
Interesting.
It sounds like Russian trolls in general are still getting online, like you’d expect, being spooks with government resources. But maybe Yandex was (tangentially?) involved in whatever astroturfing Musk was using.
Think we have to realistically recognize that not all the people advancing the agenda are bots or even Russian. Even without prodding, pretty much any perspective is held sincerely by someone or someones.
Besides, presumably the campaign would have the effect of converting at least some true believers.
Also, it’s a bit of a fantasy to assume that a few datacenters would suffice for fully dismantling these sorts of compaigns.
Bots are just amplifying the disgusting, violent thoughts of conservatives.
Interesting. Most interesting…
Billionaires have too much power. They need to be cut down to size.
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I hear France invented a neat tool to do that efficiently.
Hah, Elon got a bit butthurt when his bots were taken down…
Bots were not taken down 😀 Anyway, We should create awareness and advocate to not use of twitter
I thought it was well established that bot traffic declined since the yanked data centre stuff.
Is that not the case?
The bots that were taken down on the “bot traffic” graph are web crawler bots used to index webpages for the yandex search engine. Propaganda “bots” aren’t actually labeled as “bot traffic”, for obvious reasons.
Why would anyone want to use Twitter still?
I wrote my “independent” government news outlet to say that they should probably distance themselves from fascists.
They wrote back, saying “right now, our mission is to reach as many as possible, and right now X has many of our followers.”
Cowards.
It wouldn’t cost them a lot to diversify and be present on more platforms to transition away, cowards indeed.
Unfortunately, with a widespread reach it’s a platform bigger than Bluesky or Mastodon; the EFF made itself Bluesky-exclusive, so effectively reducing its reach, but some progressive news outlets like Al-Jazeera still maintains a presence on Twitter and is free to criticize Israeli and American actions.
Yandex is a search engine, it has legitimate crawler bots. So this statistic is not really beneficial to the conversation.
Also, most likely propaganda bots would be under the radar and not self-declaring as bots.
So this is what Putin wanted in exchange for diesel…
Yes, and DT, too.
Restricting Starlink access limits Ukraine’s ability to strike at Russian diesel supplies, protecting the recent agreement between the US and Russia.
Does it though? To my knowledge Starlink doesn’t work inside Russia, maybe some near the boarder. This would more impact operations in Crimea / occupied territory, naval drones, and frontline communications.
Bingo!!
Sounds a lot like treason
ALL conservativea are traitors and should be dealt with as such.
He did this before, in 2022. The state department and intelligence community freaked out. I guess that was just advertising and the opposition has all been turned over.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starlink_in_the_Russo-Ukrainian_war
No, that’s called the consequences of your actions. We allowed Trump to get elected and Trump is friends with Elon and Putin. This shouldn’t be surprising to anyone.
Not sure what you mean. Reply OP was pointing out that this isn’t surprising IMO.
That’s sad they still trusted elmo and should have known that he would try to benefit putin. It’s wrong how it is, but he is known untrustworthy.
The advantage was undeniable. Trust != use and have contingencies ready.
If its Starshield it was probably ordered by Trump. The DoD controls that, and its unlikely SpaceX would alter it without their request.
Imagine how the DoD would feel if SpaceX unilaterally altered DoD service. The DoD needs to believe, even if its not true, that they have operational control.
Edit: Musk has now chimed in saying the government is in control of starshield not SpaceX as expected.
Edit: lol and Trump of course now denying doing anything. Can’t wait to hear from someone else what happened. Germany is demanding answers now too.
We all know for which side of this war they are playing
Putin pulled out new compromat and/or offered little kids to Trump and Musk again.
If I was Ukraine I would be doing a deal with Australia to to use the spaceport being set up under the second pillar of AUKUS, sharing with the Australians how to make launch vehicles (which are essentially what short range ballistic missiles are ie Tochka. Satalites coupled with the Australian nuemann drive would be a huge benefit for both countries, especially Ukraine who could deploy their own spaced based communication network.
How much are the Russians paying Musk? Like seriously this is just insane.
They hit musks bot farm ofc he mad af
