Fury in Ukraine as Elon Musk's SpaceX limits Starlink use for drones

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A senior Ukrainian presidential aide has reacted with anger after Elon Musk’s SpaceX said it had taken steps to prevent its Starlink satellite communications service from controlling drones, which are critical to Kyiv’s forces in fighting off the Russian invasion.

Gwynne Shotwell, SpaceX’s chief operating officer, said at a conference in the US that the surprise decision had been taken because it had never been the company’s intention to allow Starlink to be used “for offensive purposes”.

That prompted an immediate complaint on Thursday morning from Mykhailo Podolyak, a senior adviser to Ukraine’s president, Volodymr Zelenskiy, who argued that Musk’s business had failed to recognise Ukraine’s right to self-defence.

[Wingus Dingus]

1. Musk has nothing but dick moves left.

Hero to villain in record time.

[efhmc]

7. Never trusted him so never was my hero, but buying twitter and letting scumbags back in clinched

my thoughts about him.

[sinkingfeeling]

2. OMG, this is a death sentence to Ukrainians. Hey, Musk, Ukraine is on defense.

[efhmc]

3. #EvilMuck is the epitome of the evil capitalist pig.

Those are the people who once were demonized by the regular folks in the US and now they are their heroes.

[bluestarone]

4. Total BULLSHIT!

Gotta wonder if Russia has access?

[2naSalit]

6. I don't wonder at all about that.

[uponit7771]

12. +1,

[2naSalit]

5. Let's nationalize the system...

And tell the asshole to fuck off. Didn't we pay for most of it?

[HAB911]

9. +++++

[C_U_L8R]

8. Private ownership of space defense systems... what could go wrong?

Musk is showing us.

[crickets]

14. Exactly. nt

[spanone]

10. K&R

[LetMyPeopleVote]

11. Musk is trying to help Russia

[highplainsdem]

13. Yes. Obviously.