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As the article states there's no reason to think Starlink temporarily slowed down their internet service deliberately. Elon has been a strong supporter of the Ukrainian side, donating hundreds of millions to them and risking retaliation from Russia against their satellites. I understand why they're upset, people can die when their internet is disrupted, but the article seems especially hostile for what is likely a bugged update or Russian interference on their military-grade service.

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The reason to think that is because Elon previously personally intervened and neutered Ukraine's Starlink after a Russian government official told him Russia was going to nuke someone.

Elon is so fucking stupid he doesn't know how nuclear deterrence works and he actually thought Starlink was the deciding factor.

Shame on Elon for saving the world from nuclear holocaust.

For what its worth though he denied extending their network into Russian territory due to a threat of a nuclear attack. Not only did Ukraine know about it, but it was a stop on internet service. The disruption described in the article sounds more like the quality of service issues the way they continued to operate on reduced speeds and flaky service.

> Shame on Elon for saving the world from nuclear holocaust.

lmfao

The 'weird nerd' meme is alive and well on HN it seems. You can't make these up.

I know this is completely lost on Elon and the likes but the attack was not on "Russian territory" it was on territory most of the world does not recognize as Russia.

He could be pressuring them to stop striking refineries on behalf of Trump.

It's possible, I don't know for sure, but just the way the article described it this sounds like a quality of service issue, which would suggest technical difficulties. Starlink has a button to turn off service, but they probably don't have a button to indeterminately flicker internet speeds down and up with randomly high latency.

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