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Elon Musk says he withheld Starlink over Crimea to avoid escalation (www.bbc.com)

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A senior Ukrainian official says this enabled Russian attacks and accuses him of "committing evil".

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We know that DoD is paying for Starlink service in Ukraine, but there are no public details of the contract. Not sure how paying for a service is a subsidy.

"Opposing Autocracy" is an interesting choice of words, since everyone who's up in arms about this is implying that the government should force a private company to participate in any war on whatever terms they dictate. Freedom isn't easy, sometimes people and companies do stuff you don't like, but I we want a working democracy you have to give them that liberty or else loose your own eventually.