Oh no starlink bad

Yeah like, I can understand a hesitation around being directly involved in a war effort, but mate once you’ve opened your system up to the military you’re kinda already there.

Yeah, but Putin said he'd give me like $10 or whatever in rubles if I did it. Then he called me a chicken... And I'm no chicken and I wanted the $10 so I could get this month's battle pass!
He literally was paid a shit-ton of money by the pentagon to provide service to the Ukranian military. He took the money. And then he's like, "how could I have known they'd use it in WAR?"

It's pretty obvious he got paid by the Russians to sabotage that operation. Which makes him an enemy agent against the US I guess since he sabotaged a military asset the US paid for.
- He got paid to let Ukraine use starlink within Ukraines post 2014 borders to defend Ukraine land. Then when Ukraine tries to bomb a Russian navy fleet OUTSIDE OF UKRAINE'S BORDERS and it doesn't work everyone gets mad. I'm all for trashing Elon when it's due, and I trash him a lot, but he was literally playing by the established rules here.
  
  Had he let the Ukrainians bomb the fleet, he would have directly went against the US militaries orders. I get we all want Russia to stop and whatnot, but (and I hate that I'm the one defending him and saying this) Elon didn't do wrong here. The missles were flying correctly in starlink air, they hit the border, then stopped working. Also, this happened last year.
Perhaps if we got rid of borders.

Edit: I guess people didn't see his username.
- I will note, while I find my namesake’s story interesting, I do quibble on the benefits of bombardment by multiple-reentry thermonuclear warheads.

Starlink is fucking fantastic, it's Elon Musk who's a sloppy Nazi cunt

It does have some downsides (orbital clutter in particular) but conceptually I agree
- Orbital pollution and atmosphere pollution from the launches. All to avoid laying some fiber :/
- It doesn't really clutter orbits as they will deorbit unpowered in less than a decade.
Ehhhhhh.

Starlink has a major problem in durability as a result of the low orbit (required for low latency), meaning it's extremely expensive in upkeep.

The satellites inability to talk to eachother, combined with the narrow transmission angle means the system scales very poorly and has numerous bottlenecks (both the satellite and the uplink station). Yes, Starlink is "working on it", but the laser-link solution is very complex in terms of engineering.

Starlink has some amazing usecases, but those usecases can't possible cover the cost. It runs almost entirely on subsidies and venture capital.
- Sheeet, I never realised they can't talk to one another.
True

Using something I’ve built to destroy warships before they can launch cruise missiles at an apartment block?

Now I am become death, saviour of civilian power grids.

Yeah, because only the Good Guy Military uses it and they would never do anything bad 🙄
- That's an argument as old as time though
  
  If only they hadn't invented kitchen knives there wouldn't be so many stabbings

Is this Oppenheimer?

- Man... I see Stargate, I fucking up vote 💯

My le internet, it le networked interconnectively?

yes :(

What do you mean "my internet"?

Internet was purposely developed for military goals.

Elon-Meme 😅

When the military is using your ass as a front to install military hardware in space.

Wut
- I'm guessing a conspiracy that Starlink is just a cover for the US military deploying oodles of satellites for great imperialism.
If they've picked Musk as their front, they're too incompetent to be worth worrying about.

The motherfucker used his unparalleled view of the battle lines in Ukraine to see that Ukraine (an ally) was launching an offensive against the Russian navy (an enemy), and shut down access, stopping the offensive. The Russian fleet went on to attack Ukrainian civilians, killing children. Musk has also been meeting with Putin. The only reason he's not being tried for treason is the lack of a formal declaration of war against Russia. Musk is incredibly erratic and easily influenced. The government has to deal with him on some matters, but if they're not doing whatever they can to eliminate their reliance on that traitorous moron, they're not going to be capable of getting that mystery hardware to space, let alone using it.