He didn't think giving it to Ukraine (I say give but he basically got the US military to pay for it) to defend against a Russian invasion would mean it would be used by the military??

[–] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Defending is one thing, but putting it on a weapon platform is another thing. A few years ago there were a lot of discussion when one of the popular open source library (I forgot which) explicitly said they won't allow their work to be included in any weapon system that used to kill human. A lot of people in tech were in agreement, so it's not a stretch to imagine western tech companies typically don't want their product to be weaponized.

[–] zbyte64@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 year ago

Ehh, musk is a marketer who happens to own tech companies. He's doing this either to help the brand (collect military dollars while publicly being anti-war) or to leverage more contracts (US military didn't explicitly contract for this use, please pay me more next time).

[–] ArdMacha@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It was an invasion, they were attacking Russia on Ukrainian soil, everything they are doing is defensive. He timed it being unavailable during a major planned offensive, he was working for the other side, you cannot defend this.