Post AZltH7UrCPSGuIeqUC by strangefreeworld@masto.ai
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(DIR) Post #AZlsUbvnFvhV6m7srA by KimPerales@toad.social
2023-09-14T22:08:17Z
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Good, #Musk is one of America's greatest national security threats: The Senate Armed Services Committee is probing national-security issues raised by Elon Musk’s decision not to extend the private Starlink satellite network to aid a Ukrainian attack on Russian warships near the Crimean coast.Chairman Jack Reed said in a statement Thursday the reports on the use of Starlink exposed “serious national-security liability issues & the committee is engaged on this issue.”https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-09-14/elon-musk-s-denial-of-ukraine-s-starlink-request-prompts-senate-query?sref=fjrBr5qu#xj4y7vzkg
(DIR) Post #AZltH7UrCPSGuIeqUC by strangefreeworld@masto.ai
2023-09-14T22:17:01Z
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@KimPerales is it too much to hope that significant sanctions may result against Musk for this? Or will they just send a Sternly Worded Letter?
(DIR) Post #AZltYzcHEjkDgAePse by MediaBaron@mastodon.social
2023-09-14T22:20:17Z
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@KimPerales @GottaLaff Doesn’t want to piss off Putin? It can’t be that he doesn’t want Starlink for military use as he has no problem taking Pentagon money for spy satellite launches.
(DIR) Post #AZltgTz0jTd7t2r7jc by LALegault@newsie.social
2023-09-14T22:21:37Z
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@KimPerales 🙌
(DIR) Post #AZltqqBH3Yu9czWyyu by Judeet98@mstdn.social
2023-09-14T22:23:29Z
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@KimPerales At last. They'd better get a trot on as Ukraine is still resisting Russia and cannot afford to be beholden to someone like Musk interfering with their defence. It also compromises the US.
(DIR) Post #AZlvNm6rJWjOVmjZHU by BillMcGuire@universeodon.com
2023-09-14T22:28:53Z
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@KimPerales great news. he's a putz who wants to play both sides of the fence to benefit himself only. He is kowtowing to Putin and Xi and we should cut him the hell off! His citizenship should be a risk.
(DIR) Post #AZlwWyc0IeMjqbFldw by aggualaqisaaq@mastodon.sdf.org
2023-09-14T22:53:18Z
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@KimPerales Here’s an unpaywalled version of the article:https://news.yahoo.com/musk-denial-ukraine-starlink-request-211539934.html#musk #twitter
(DIR) Post #AZlyvoKhqze57E8Fqi by AnnieBuddy@mstdn.ca
2023-09-14T23:20:26Z
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@KimPerales What I don't understand is that it took this event going public for them to think about this.Shouldn't they be a little more proactive about these kinds of threats?
(DIR) Post #AZm0RTgSGKSaIHy7Si by Waterloo2@mstdn.party
2023-09-14T23:37:21Z
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@KimPerales musk is to political to have the power we gave him
(DIR) Post #AZm3qyAyKVn9xx5dQm by DaniEhm@mas.to
2023-09-15T00:15:34Z
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@KimPerales It’s about time. He gets away with so much.
(DIR) Post #AZmAeEmxx52fP7jljs by ecsd@commons.whatiwanttoknow.org
2023-09-15T01:31:43Z
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@KimPerales Sorry, I defend Musk on this. It's easy to do:* a bunch of bought-off dipshits allowed a beserker billionaire to colonize near space to make megabucks doing something nobody asked for and nobody really needed.* they allowed him to operate this network as he saw fit.* the story goes that he was convinced that if he permitted the attack to proceed using Starlink, the Russians would interpret that as a direct American provocation and launch a thermonuclear war. He didn't want that to happen. He owned the network; and as they say, "he made the executive decision to avoid the possibility of his gear being fingered for starting WWIII", namely, who could indemnify him for that? It would raise the cost of his business insurance. {laughs} Also, it would ruin a few people's days. All in all, I can't say I disagree with what he did, given the veracity of the story given.They are right about one thing, though, people in government and people in the military fucked up. The phrase used was "critical national security infrastructure", and you don't outsource that. The error was letting a megalomaniac get started in the first place, but once the military value of the thing became understood, someone from the DOD should have visited Musk to discuss it. That didn't happen, SFAIK, no consultation was done at all? Curious no-one thought to do so. Strange oversight.Conclusion: hold your hearings. But leave Musk out of it, as a victim of circumstance having haplessly made the choice, as he understood it, to save the world.
(DIR) Post #AZmAkAqDXeImtm5Ytk by StarkRG@myside-yourside.net
2023-09-15T01:32:46Z
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@KimPerales I can't believe the blissfully false "didn't extend" narrative actually took hold. He turned it off.
(DIR) Post #AZmC3HJpmXXgRecD7g by stevensanderson@mstdn.social
2023-09-15T01:47:27Z
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@KimPerales that’s not a security risk that’s a we want you to support the war on our side note get to it
(DIR) Post #AZmFZUEzZdMdePOsN6 by gdeihl@spore.social
2023-09-15T02:26:52Z
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@KimPerales All billionaires are security threats. They are also responsible for global poverty. They control everything and are consolidating their power.
(DIR) Post #AZmFoCYLcQk18XTD9s by lawyersgunsnmoney@mstdn.social
2023-09-15T02:29:22Z
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@KimPerales Sen. Warren's statement outside of AI summit with Elon there apparently got some traction with Chairman Reed. @MaggieCi
(DIR) Post #AZmHYGsBzNdboIHfHc by Waterloo2@mstdn.party
2023-09-15T02:49:05Z
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@KimPerales deport musk before he attacks Americans
(DIR) Post #AZmRuRyCPWoq8gJ9qy by CDunnPasadena@universeodon.com
2023-09-15T04:44:54Z
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@KimPerales FAA & FCC should pull his launch approval until it is clear that the launches are in the national interest
(DIR) Post #AZmXDpKGIXGfqggct6 by SonofaGeorge@mstdn.ca
2023-09-15T05:44:37Z
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@KimPerales Wouldn’t it be amazing if the US nationalized and took over #Starlink? Damned sure there’s legislation to allow it.
(DIR) Post #AZmnfnDNL4fkfzp3my by JohnLoader6@masto.ai
2023-09-15T08:48:59Z
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@KimPerales There is an alternative OneWeb. More satellites but higher. And the UK Government has shares in it. Starlink is not a monopoly
(DIR) Post #AZmsXVUrpTRTBBsA64 by JeremyPBoggess@mstdn.party
2023-09-15T09:43:32Z
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Whether to turn it on of off is the decision of the U.S. Military, NOT a private citizen.
(DIR) Post #AZmsfZgW8tquU7AWfo by JeremyPBoggess@mstdn.party
2023-09-15T09:44:59Z
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@KimPerales Whether to turn it on of off is the decision of the U.S. Military, NOT a private citizen.
(DIR) Post #AZmshKgGtjQCWutMvI by JeremyPBoggess@mstdn.party
2023-09-15T09:45:20Z
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Whether to turn it on of off is the decision of the U.S. Military, NOT a private citizen.
(DIR) Post #AZnDVuzk9h6WibOlHM by wauz@mastodon.bayern
2023-09-15T13:38:34Z
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@KimPeralesNo. SpaceX is a private Company, and by no means part of the US defence system. After all, the use of the Starlink system wasn't intended by any mean to defend the USA. @GatekeepKen
(DIR) Post #AZnUQRCDDZh64VCe5Q by KimPerales@toad.social
2023-09-15T16:48:02Z
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Senate Dems are demanding that the Pentagon turn over information about Elon Musk's Starlink contracts with the US military, to investigate whether there're safeguards in them to prevent another version of Musk's recent fiasco. They're demanding a full accounting of whether contracts like Starlink's safeguard against the provider making unilateral decisions to suspend service, as #Musk apparently did. They also demand details on the Musk/#Ukraine incident. -Greg Sargenthttps://www.shaheen.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/secdef_starlink_letter.pdf
(DIR) Post #AZnYi7T5hgZNurmiHY by yacc143@mastodon.social
2023-09-15T17:36:03Z
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@KimPerales Shrug,seriously?A contract is supposed to keep a potential foreign asset who happens to be a billionaire, thus is by tradition mostly immune from law enforcement, from: “oops, sorry, somebody tripped over the power cable in the control centre, while the US attack mission relying on our Starlink network went in.”In the good tradition of SLAs:We'll pay back the 50% of the usage fees for the 24h hours when we didn't offer the 99.99% uptime. Thank you for choosing Starlink.
(DIR) Post #AZnZ8gZ3q4xoIKFEkS by ArenaCops@infosec.exchange
2023-09-15T17:40:48Z
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@KimPerales Considering what Musk pulled against Ukraine he may not be seen as the most reliable & mentally stable contractor within Pentagon circles. #NationalSecurity #NationalDefense #USMilitary #Pentagon #StarLink #MuskSuX #PutinsWar #WarOfAggression #StandWithUkraine
(DIR) Post #AZndy06hL77BURhd2G by rebel63@mstdn.social
2023-09-15T18:34:56Z
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@KimPerales I'm a bit surprised that a Ukrainian entity / person hasn't "tried to take out" musk. Matter of time I supposed....
(DIR) Post #AZnfU2RsGk8byORrRw by parislady1492@mstdn.social
2023-09-15T18:51:54Z
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@KimPerales I totally agree with these Senators demand for accountability for Elon Musks actions re Starlight disabling activity re Ukraine.