No one like Elon Musk should ever have the power to do this.
He has bricked people's Tesla's because they were mean to him. Idk why people keep giving this rapist a pass.
I believe this is a result of private infastructure. If they had their own internet satelites, they wouldn't be at the mercy of some dickhead who has something to gain by manipulating their access on a whim.
The issue is resources. Ukraine has been trying to develop it's own satellite comms network but lacks the resources particularly in the middle of a war.
Take it from someone from the one country that developed then abandoned indigenous space launch capability; space infrastructure is insanely expensive.
Black Arrow was actually good though, and Britain was mad to cancel it. Also cheap for its day, the government was spaffing money on far worse at the time.
Hah, Elon got a bit butthurt when his bots were taken down....
Bots were not taken down 😀 Anyway, We should create awareness and advocate to not use of twitter
Why would anyone want to use Twitter still?
I wrote my "independent" government news outlet to say that they should probably distance themselves from fascists.
They wrote back, saying "right now, our mission is to reach as many as possible, and right now X has many of our followers."
Cowards.
It wouldn't cost them a lot to diversify and be present on more platforms to transition away, cowards indeed.
I thought it was well established that bot traffic declined since the yanked data centre stuff.
Is that not the case?
The bots that were taken down on the "bot traffic" graph are web crawler bots used to index webpages for the yandex search engine. Propaganda "bots" aren't actually labeled as "bot traffic", for obvious reasons.
Yandex is a search engine, it has legitimate crawler bots. So this statistic is not really beneficial to the conversation.
Also, most likely propaganda bots would be under the radar and not self-declaring as bots.
Or they're self-declaring as crawler bots for a search engine company.
Unlikely. The "bot" traffic that cloudflare here identifies, is traffic according to the useragent, that is not an actual user + heuristics cloudflare uses to identify bot devices.
Since ruski propaganda bots would want to act as legitimate users, spreading LLM and/or organically generated word soup, and/or pumping views. They not only have to not be identified as bots, but also to act well enough as a user no captcha and/or cloudflare bot identification catches them.
So this is what Putin wanted in exchange for diesel....
Yes, and DT, too.
Restricting Starlink access limits Ukraine’s ability to strike at Russian diesel supplies, protecting the recent agreement between the US and Russia.
Does it though? To my knowledge Starlink doesn't work inside Russia, maybe some near the boarder. This would more impact operations in Crimea / occupied territory, naval drones, and frontline communications.
I got annoyed by all the still existent butwhataboutistanists and haveyetnotseenanyrealtruthbutbelieveinbbcofallsources bros on lemmy, so I analyzed twitter posts of the big talking head himself:

Note the log scale. Now let's ponder the ramifications of the coincidence of big talking head losing fame in the exact same day as missiles strike random data center.
Edit: more info: https://lemmy.world/post/53119699
Bro
Thats fucking wild
good to see some actual data instead of hearsay and anecdotes
Elon is probably upset; when Ukraine destroyed that bot center they killed all his friends.
SpaceX employees seduced by Mars missions are now supporting authoritarianism, speech suppression, electoral rigging, violent invasions, and petrocracy.
Funnily enough, some years back a recruiter came knocking for me to interview for SpaceX. I was not especially interested (not due to any particular insight to the true Musk or anything, just didn't feel like it), and the recruitor seemed sincerely baffled why I didn't immediately fall to the floor in awe at the possibility.
All this to be Elon's serfs and concubines. What losers.
Billionaires have too much power. They need to be cut down to size.
I hear France invented a neat tool to do that efficiently.
We all know for which side of this war they are playing
How much are the Russians paying Musk? Like seriously this is just insane.
They hit musks bot farm ofc he mad af
He did this before, in 2022. The state department and intelligence community freaked out. I guess that was just advertising and the opposition has all been turned over.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starlink_in_the_Russo-Ukrainian_war
No, that's called the consequences of your actions. We allowed Trump to get elected and Trump is friends with Elon and Putin. This shouldn't be surprising to anyone.
If Ukraine had any sense they would try to be as little as possible dependent on the Trumps ilk and I think they have. Message was clear from the start.
What gives you the impression that they don't try? That they don't launch hundreds of satellites themselves?
What alternative to Starlink could they use?
Sounds a lot like treason
Sounds a lot like something I saw coming from Proxima Centauri.
The moment the news broke a few years back that Ukraine relies on an Elon Musk product for their operations this was the exact future scenario I imagined.
While Musk is behaving badly again this site is almost impossible to read due to ads, pious and the like.
ublock origin is right there
it is a good reason to advocate mastodon over twitter. We should advocate usage of decentralized system
If its Starshield it was probably ordered by Trump. The DoD controls that, and its unlikely SpaceX would alter it without their request.
Imagine how the DoD would feel if SpaceX unilaterally altered DoD service. The DoD needs to believe, even if its not true, that they have operational control.
Edit: Musk has now chimed in saying the government is in control of starshield not SpaceX as expected.
Edit: lol and Trump of course now denying doing anything. Can't wait to hear from someone else what happened. Germany is demanding answers now too.
Putin pulled out new compromat and/or offered little kids to Trump and Musk again.
If I was Ukraine I would be doing a deal with Australia to to use the spaceport being set up under the second pillar of AUKUS, sharing with the Australians how to make launch vehicles (which are essentially what short range ballistic missiles are ie Tochka. Satalites coupled with the Australian nuemann drive would be a huge benefit for both countries, especially Ukraine who could deploy their own spaced based communication network.
That's sad they still trusted elmo and should have known that he would try to benefit putin. It's wrong how it is, but he is known untrustworthy.
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