Musk’s Denial of Ukraine’s Starlink Request Prompts Senate Probe

Re:Musk’s Denial of Ukraine’s Starlink Request Prompts Senat... by _kbh_ on Friday September 15, 2023 @10:44AM (#37523826)

> The simplest explanation, in my mind, is that Musk just doesn't want his stuff used to kill people in offensive actions. That is why he and the president of SpaceX have said. Trying to read too much into what Musk says won't make things clearer. Musk doesn't have the most consistent or coherent world view.

Funny you say that considering they are trying to launch a government version of Starlink (Starshield) that would likely be used to kill people.

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Re:Musk’s Denial of Ukraine’s Starlink Request Prompts Senat... by ImJamal on Friday September 15, 2023 @11:31AM (#37524586)

I haven't seen any evidence that Star shield will be used to kill anybody.

Also, to be clear, Musk isn't opposed to using it for killing people. If he was he wouldn't allow it in defensive military actions in Ukraine. Defensive actions require killing after all.

Using it for the US military doesn't mean offensive killing either. From what I have seen the purpose is for "additional high-assurance cryptographic capability to host classified payloads and process data securely". Not necessarily offensive killings.

This is my problem with this whole thread. Everybody is just making assumption after assumption. Maybe Musk is being a hypocrite on Ukraine using Starlink. I don't know, but the available evidence doesn't show either way.

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