Never seen anyone try to drive established successful businesses into ground this hard. (Trump can bankrupt anything but that's Trump being Trump)
Tesla cars were coveted and now any new Tesla carries a fascist undercurrent.
Twitter was an ok ok platform and he spurred the entire fediverse (and bluesky) into overdrive.
Starlink was a monopoly and cruising to victory and now multiple countries have decided to compete and intentionally not sell it spectrum.
Yet another galaxy brain move from Business Genius™. What better way to make it absolutely clear that you cannot rely on his flagship product for anything remotely mission critical.
Aspiring Legitimate Military Target Musk says he was behind Starlink speed restriction after service in Ukraine is restored
Business leaders have always had tremendous power, and I'm sure many on this board are aware of how American business leaders like Kennedy and Ford tried to influence wars past.
But still... holy fuck.
It's fortunate that Starlink-esque technology is being developed in other places, because this is a monopoly that need to be fucking gone if a single, unstable ketamine addict can unilaterally decide that he's going to hamstring a whole-ass country.
Flexing his power to show off and remind... someone? Everyone? That he holds such power.
And, no one will notice, outside of the few paying attention. And, by "no one" I mean the vast majority of people with their heads buried in their phones scrolling TikTok.
Fuck Musk
What's the likelyhood that it was still in fact trump, but he told musk to take the blame in return for some regulation or something to go away.
Musk needs to be treated for what he is:
A scumbag war criminal.
I would like someone to calculate a number of casualties that resulted from him directly
Can't rely on selfish assholes to ever do good for humanity in the long run, so things like this should not be privately owned, or put how many redundant systems in orbit to compete, it's unsustainable and unhealthy to humanity.
TREASON
This isn't new though, that's what he said when it happened.
Musk said that Starlink is not licensed to clients who are using weapons, and that the Ukrainian military was linked to a separate network called Starshield, which is operated by the US government. “This is not under SpaceX control,” Musk wrote.
I'm not going to look too hard for it but he also said (maybe on Twitter, I don't have an account so I can't look) that he was limiting access to starlink for projectiles going > 100 miles/hr.
It's still not clear to me what systems are using what network and if they knew about the restrictions.
Eta:
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2110445577184133456
I am likely mistaken about Musk saying speeds were limited so I struck that from my original comment.
Someone needs to tally up known deaths by these murderous fucks and the law needs to start arresting them.
Are there legal researchers naming these crimes? Think tanks and legal activists trying to get them on the books? We're being let down.
Is it the same musk who claimed he's nothing to do with it, or there's another one?
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