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hcurtiss • yesterday at 4:55 PM • 0 replies • view on HN

But he didn’t. Starshield is used for military operations and it is controlled by the US government, not Musk.[1] Starlink cannot be used for offensive military applications. Those that try are shut off entirely. If Ukraine is illegally using consumer Starlink in drones (which would not work particularly well), SpaceX wouldn’t even know which receivers to turn off. If they did, they’d turn them off entirely, not slow them as is alleged.

[1] https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/10/15/what-is-starshield...