• GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip
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    10 months ago

    You can already see how incredibly irresponsibly he is using it in Ukraine. He turned it off at some point because he didn’t like what Ukraine was about to do (go on the offensive) and has recently refused to activate the service for the crimea area, unilaterally hampering the war effort of a sovereign nation engaged in a defensive war, even acting against the foreign policy of the United States. This degree of agenda and control over geopolitical affairs is unacceptable to have for a private person. A legislative body of some sort should have complete oversight over whom he turns off the internet for.

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      He turned it off at some point because he didn’t like what Ukraine was about to do (go on the offensive) and has recently refused to activate the service for the crimea area, unilaterally hampering the war effort of a sovereign nation engaged in a defensive war

      Except none of that is true.

      It was always off. The biographer has retracted the statement, Ukraine has provided no proof it was ever on (e.g we used it in op prior to this one successfully), and their contract stated that offensive use was not allowed.

      That wasn’t recent either, it was winter 2022, and the DoD has since signed a contract with SpaceX taking control of those dishes, allowing Ukraine to do what they want, which by the way, is how it should have always been, but the DoD dragged their feet.