• jarfil@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    What against US policy?

    You can check the list of sanctions imposed on Ukraine/Russia, which regions, types of activity and subjects, along with the exceptions and licenses at:

    https://ofac.treasury.gov/sanctions-programs-and-country-information/ukraine-russia-related-sanctions

    You may notice that US citizens have been forbidden from providing telecommunications services, including via satellite, in the conflict areas since early 2022, requiring a special license to operate.

    Starlink didn’t have such license, and only got a DoD agreement in mid 2023.

    In late 2022, Musk would’ve had to break that policy in order to allow the drones to be controlled into the conflict zone.

    As for him saying so… I don’t think he’s the type to paint himself as subservient to the government, even if he is; more like the megalomaniac type claiming to have stopped WW3 barehanded, even if he literally did nothing.

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      1 year ago

      So the only one saying Musk didn’t activate Starlink was because of US sanctions is you, and not even Musk himself.

      There’s not article, just you deducing from the US sanctions list.

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          1 year ago

          It is a little incredulous that somehow only you have figured out the real reason Musk didn’t activate Starlink.

          With so many articles coming out, no officials making a statement, hell even a biographer shadowing Musk at the time. Even Musk gives alternate reasons and doesn’t say it, even if it would save him from a lot of bad press.

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            1 year ago

            Indeed, quite incredible. Maybe I don’t get paid by the click, don’t have an agenda, and don’t blindly follow those who do? Guess only time will tell.