KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Elon Musk said on Saturday that his company SpaceX had throttled the Starlink satellite internet service in Ukraine, disrupting operations that the country relies on to defend itself against Russia.
Musk’s admission on social media came after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that Ukraine’s access to Starlink and Starshield satellite links has been restored to the speeds it had before restrictions that disrupted front-line operations for more than a week.
Questions have persisted since last week about who ordered the interruptions to the Musk-made satellite internet system that Kyiv has relied on for years to counter Moscow’s attacks.
“The speeds are now where they need to be,” Zelenskyy wrote on X, adding that restoration began overnight and were sufficient by Saturday morning, improving front-line logistics and defense against Russian jet-powered Shahed drones.
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.
Yup. There was a period a couple of months ago where there was a new story about Musk’s feckless incompetence every single day of the week, and I made a video about it. He gets a ton of bad press but it’s rare for there to be a brand new story about how shitty he is every day of the week.
I hate that the only people who get time with him on camera are sycophants or playing the role of sycophants because it profits them. It would be so wonderful if journalists did their job and brought up his failed predictions every single time a camera is pointed his way.
He picks those people. He’s not going to talk to real journalists, and let the videos get out. He’s the richest man on the planet, he gets to manipulate everyone and there’s nothing anyone can do about it.
You’re not wrong.
Just have to hope one day he goes down a k-hole that’s way too deep and pulls a Matthew Perry.
Musk is an idiot, economically speaking. We saw that when he fucked up Teslas reputation with DOGE. He wants to feel important, be part of important decisions, even if they do not make sense at all. Of course this leads to other nations seeking for alternatives to get independent of Musk. The moron in the white house allows for such Losers, because Losers get along with each other.
He was keen to get onto Epstein Island FFS. The man may like paedophiles but that was another attempt to suck up. He must have self worth issues.
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.
💯% it’s absolutely one of the big Reasons I’m seriously looking at meshtastic mesh core or Halow. And getting involved with Community networking here in the Kansas City area. The sooner the better. And even if it’s not high bandwidth it’s something.
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.
This is all getting confusing, and its on purpose, and the media doesnt help by not distinguishing starlink and starshield.
The latest as i understand it.
Starlink: commercial / consumer service. Must not be used to kill people. Cannot be used in Russia (its geofenced). Has speed (movement) limits.
Starshield: military version of starlink owned by US government, which can do whatever they want with it. There are no limits.
Musk is alleging that Ukraine somehow violated the terms of Starlink and were able to by pass the speed limits and geofence on it and used it as a weapon of war. He is also saying he did not alter starshield, only starlink.
Ukraine is saying fuck that we didnt break the terms on starlink, we’ve been using starshield for war purposes and Starshield was what got fucked up. We only use starlink for communication purposes as allowed.
Trump administration is saying we didn’t alter starshield.
So clearly Musk or Trump is lying. Someone altered Starshield, and I very much doubt Ukraine hacked starlink to bypass restrictions when they could just use starshield.
TREASON
