You’re (probably knowingly) spreading disinformation if you’re implying SpaceX is selling Starlink terminals to Russia. You have no moral standing to criticize them if you yourself are spreading lies.
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just_another_person@lemmy.world 6 months ago
He’s already selling to both side with Starlink. Who is to say Musk won’t be doing the same with this? He’s really playing up the Bond Villain stereotype.
Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee 6 months ago
just_another_person@lemmy.world 6 months ago
It’s not disinformation at all. Russians are using Starlink on the battlefield. SpaceX knew, and didn’t report it. Russians continue to use it without any remediation from SpaceX yet. That sure as shit meets the bare minimum in my book as complicity.
Why are you on here being a fence or fact checker for Russia and SpaceX anyway? Fuck Russia, and Fuck Elon Musk.
Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee 6 months ago
The accusation being made here is not about Russia using Starlink but about SpaceX selling them to both sides for which I haven’t seen any evidence for. You can not like Musk all you want but making statements like that as if it’s an established fact is dishonest. It implies malice when the most likely explanation is that these terminals simply just were obtained via 3rd parties. Starlink doesn’t work in Russia or in the occupied territories but it does work near the front lines because Ukraine is using them there so if Russians are able to obtain an active terminal somehow then there’s a good chance it will work.
You also seem to be implying that SpaceX isn’t doing anything about it. What are you basing this on? How could you know? They’ve said that they’re going to disable all terminals found out to be used by sanctioned parties and I don’t see any reason to assume they’re not doing this. For all we know they could have disabled hundreds if not thousands terminals by now. Ofcourse if you have evidence to the contrary then I’m interested in seeing it.
Why are you on here being a fence or fact checker for Russia and SpaceX anyway?
Because I have no dog in the fight and I only care about the truth. I have zero interest in the anti-Elon circlejerk - I’m just trying to figure out what’s actually going on.
STOMPYI@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Fucking bootlicking lap dogs.
Syn_Attck@lemmy.today 6 months ago
We will find out soon enough. businessinsider.com/spacex-starlink-russia-elon-m…
why are you fact checking about Russia or SpaceX anyway?
Showing our true feelings now, are we?
STOMPYI@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Eat shit bootlicker
llamacoffee@lemmy.world 6 months ago
A lot wrong here, I’m sorry to say, and I’m really not a fan of Musk. He is absolutely not selling Starlink to be used by Russia. That would be shut down real quick. (They may be using black-market terminals, but that’s a different question.) And this new constellation will, as I understand it, be owned and operated by the US govt. Think like every single spy satellite ever: govt finds a contractor and asks them to do a thing.
just_another_person@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Oh, right. Hey could t possibly make another and sell that to someone else, oh wait…
Syn_Attck@lemmy.today 6 months ago
benignintervention@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I’m getting Deus Ex vibes
Hupf@feddit.de 6 months ago
I spill my drink!
vvv@programming.dev 6 months ago
Would you rather he, as a non-government affiliated citizen, pick a side? War is stupid. Communication is great. Maybe this is naive of me, but I think the world would be better, and maybe require less war, if everyone had equal access to communication.
ShunkW@lemmy.world 6 months ago
The fuck are you talking about? These are surveillance satellites, not some unity communications empowering satellites or something.
vvv@programming.dev 6 months ago
Surveillance is a usecase for communication. I can’t think of a communications technology that hasn’t been (ab)used for surveillance… Books even! Historically people have been prosecuted due to the books they possess! Should our target of ire be the entity building the network? Or the entity wanting to use it for surveillance? The vibe I’m getting from this thread is that folks would prefer the US government, via NASA or otherwise, have control of the whole thing instead.
Zron@lemmy.world 6 months ago
You have no idea how a spy satellite works, do you?
They take pictures.
With really, really fancy cameras.
Cameras that are very carefully, and secretly, designed to be very good at their jobs.
No, you can’t just let some third party decide to use your fancy spy satellite, that means they now know what your satellite can and can’t do, which means they can hide things from it, which means it’s now just a very expensive lump in orbit.
And need I remind you that SpaceX is not some magical self funded space ferry service. They’re a US Government contractor, that’s where most of their money comes from. The satellites are made by other contractors. There’s not a government satellite factory somewhere in the desert, they pay companies like Boeing and Honeywell to make them the parts for the satellite, and then SpaceX gets money to launch it.
When the government pays for something, the contractor is legally required to keep their mouth shut about it, hand over the keys, and be available if it breaks. The contractor cannot just decide to let someone else play with the government’s toys, that’s called espionage.
STOMPYI@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Ypu sounds like a shit head
db2@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Maybe this is naive of me
It really is. We’re not discussing the philosophy of free and open communication, we’re talking about a single narcissist who has been given money and power and how that’s a problem.
vvv@programming.dev 6 months ago
Science fiction of the 90s was the time to discuss philosophy. We didn’t come to a conclusion then. The future is now. A global low latency, highly available communications network is technologically inevitable. In our timeline, a rich narcissist has gathered enough support and competence around himself to start building that network. So now we have a real, concrete questions that needs an answer: who should have access to that network, and who should decide?
The way I see it, the options are (opening the network for everyone globally):
- limit access to non-military purposes: practically impossible
- limit access to the country of which Elon calls himself a citizen: what happens if he moves?
- destroy the network: everyone is worse off
- have the government take over control of the network: I don’t think we want this precedence
Do you have another suggestion?
Savaran@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I would rather they fund NASA to the fullest, and nationalize SpaceX under them.
vvv@programming.dev 6 months ago
So that the US government can more directly use starlink for surveillance?
Traister101@lemmy.today 6 months ago
Sure, they won’t sell it to Russia at least
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 months ago
Communications are important, which is why they’re one of the number one things an invader disrupts upon invasion: communications systems. Disrupting your enemies communications is incredibly common and to act like simply because he’s “offering communications” is such a simplistic fucking take I want to blow my brains out.
vvv@programming.dev 6 months ago
Do you have any particular pieces of theirs you can recommend I read?
I don’t consider Musk, by any means, to be “a good guy”. Ideally, I’d just rather let SpaceX keep building out starlink for the good of the world and have it be a medium for communication that is difficult to disable.
Why do we need to kill our enemies at this point in our civilization even? it’s barbaric and ridiculous. The state of the art of weaponry right now is trending towards remote operations. How long until it just becomes BattleBots but with collateral damage? When do we get to world leaders settling disputes in a game of Worms?
MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Musk is a massive POS that cannot be trusted to maintain equal access to that communication.
What don’t you grasp about that?
STOMPYI@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Dumb ass thing to say
Pat12@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Would you rather he, as a non-government affiliated citizen, pick a side? War is stupid. Communication is great. Maybe this is naive of me, but I think the world would be better, and maybe require less war, if everyone had equal access to communication.
I recently read about Ted Hall who shared nuclear secrets with the Soviet Union because he thought everyone should have equal access to nuclear weapons and this would prevent another world war.
Your logic is similar and it’s not a good thing.
vvv@programming.dev 6 months ago
Putting aside the fact that this is a bit of a straw man, multiple countries having nuclear capability is the only thing preventing nuclear war. Russia does not nuke the US (or allies) because they know the US will respond with a nuclear launch of its own. same for the other way around. Awareness and access to similar capabilities makes everyone think twice about becoming the aggressor. if I had to pick, a cold war is preferable to a hot one.
nullPointer@programming.dev 6 months ago
root password: “putin6969”
darkpanda@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
In the recent Musk biography it was said that at some point after a meeting with NASA he changed his laptop password to “ilovenasa” so you’re not far off in terms of terrible password security if the story is accurate.