2023-09-08
Imagine if the CEO of the phone company cut off phone service to the Pentagon due to opposition to, say, World War II...
CNN
An excerpt from Walter Isaacson's Elon Musk biography: Musk cut off Starlink internet access near Crimea to disrupt a Ukrainian sneak attack on a Russian fleet
Elon Musk secretly ordered his engineers to turn off his company's Starlink satellite communications network near the Crimean coast …
2023-07-31
This is a serious national security issue, which Congress should air in public hearings. Musk is erratic; if he doesn't like the manner in which the U.S. regulates Tesla vehicles or Twitter's practices, he could use Starlink as leverage or even leave U.S. https://www.nytimes.com/...
New York Times
Starlink's dominance of satellite internet raises alarms about Elon Musk's growing geopolitical sway; Starlink has 4,500+ satellites, or 50%+ of all satellites
The tech billionaire has become the dominant power in satellite internet technology. The ways he is wielding that influence are raising global alarms.