When the war was turning in Ukraine's favor and they were about to push into Russia, he shut it off and crippled their counter offensive. I remember. Fuck Elon and fuck starlink.

[–] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 9 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Which is why Starlink needs to be confiscated and managed by NATO. Somebody has to operate it, and it should be an entity who is on the side of Freedom amd Democracy.

[–] starman@programming.dev 4 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

It's not that easy to confiscate sattelites

[–] Mandrilleren@lemmy.world 4 points 1 hour ago

Sure it is. You just confiscate the infrastructure that operates them here on earth, and order their employees to comply.

I don't think that this would be a good idea, but it is definitely doable.

[–] takeda@lemm.ee 143 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Not push into Russia, but attempting to retake Crimea.

[–] egrets@lemmy.world 31 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

~~They're presumably talking about the Kursk Oblast.~~ Edit: probably not, see responses.

[–] altkey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 35 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

IIRC that was long after that. The initial shutoff of Starlink happened around the explosions targeting the Crimean bridge and them introducing their naval drones.

[–] takeda@lemm.ee 25 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Exactly, he basically messed up the offensive to retake Crimea.

[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 1 points 56 minutes ago

Elon & Trump are Russia's greatest weapons.

[–] Auli@lemmy.ca 0 points 6 hours ago

Oh no I'm hearing from people that wa a technical glitch.