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Elon Musk secretly ordered his engineers to turn off his company’s Starlink satellite communications network near the Crimean coast last year to disrupt a Ukrainian sneak attack on the Russian naval fleet, according to an excerpt adapted from Walter Isaacson’s new biography of the eccentric billionaire titled “Elon Musk.”

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[-] Donjuanme@lemmy.world 41 points 1 year ago

I fucking hate this country. Government supporting one side while idiot civilians do all they can to help the other. It's not a war crime, but I feel like it should be treason.

[-] vegivamp@feddit.nl 11 points 1 year ago

Well, the US is involved in the war, even if indirectly, and considers Ukraine a strategic partner, so one could say he's acting against the interests of the US.

[-] Taleya@aussie.zone 10 points 1 year ago
[-] nutandcross@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

That sounds Australian 🤔

[-] Taleya@aussie.zone 4 points 1 year ago

Nah mate that would be the fordo

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

We should, at the very least, tar them with the term 'fifth column.'

[-] Bernie_Sandals@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Honestly the term isn't used enough to describe Billionaires with how often they'll sell out their home country or the one they reside in.

[-] Scrof@sopuli.xyz 24 points 1 year ago
[-] emmanuel_car@kbin.social 21 points 1 year ago

Hey now, that’s offensive to cocksuckers

[-] Yewb@kbin.social 22 points 1 year ago

Lol what type of fucking photoshopped image nonsense is this?

That looks nothing like him at all.

[-] phoneymouse@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

It’s almost a cliche format at this point. All Silicon Valley “visionaries” have an image like this at some point:

https://allthingsd.com/files/2013/06/Steve-Jobs-Cover-with-Credit-embedded.jpg

[-] asteriskeverything@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That's fair because the article sounds nothing like him either.

[-] Solumbran@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Dilemma? What dilemma?

[-] foggy@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

We all realized in like 2007 that Facebook has a more comprehensive database on the populace than the FBI.

Then Snowden happened.

Our govt wanted no part in slowing down big tech creating a surveillance state. They all but gave them the green light.

Shit like this makes me think the CIA isn't nearly as powerful as we think they are.

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