There must be some way of charging him. Not that it’d stick, but I gotta think there’s some law that was violated, right?
There is. His actions are against the law and he can be charged. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logan_Act
Except at the time the US Government’s policy was for Starlink to NOT extend coverage outside of Ukraine’s borders.
Musk followed US stated policy by disobeying Ukraine’s request.
I’m not for the guy and think he’s done waaay more wrong than good, but wasn’t everyone against him even offering starlink on the first place? Now everyone is mad that they didn’t use more starlink? Honestly just seems like a lose lose situation right now for him. Had he overstepped his bounds and used starlink as an aggressor, instead of defense like he has been doing (which is one thing the US said to Ukraine, defend your land not attack theirs) people would have dragged him through the mud for that instead.
I’m all for being critical when it’s due, especially for a guy trying to role-playing Edison and his shitty tactics, but idk about this one.
Edit: Here’s a link explaining it a lot more clearly about why the news is making this bigger than it was.
Edit edit: link broken lemmys hard lol
Ukraine should make sure he doesn’t do that again
I’ve been trying to find the source but I’m certain Ukraine have developed their own… Technologies now? That their drones rely on. If I dig it up ill edit this post.
Edit, found it was a video I’d heard it from. A combination of technology.
Reporting from Ukraine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNhc8beBdD0
Nationalize his assets and deport him to South Africa
Tesla was built off the backs of the US taxpayer. It’s so crazy to me that he’s too dumb to realize being a toxic right winger is bad for business. He gets tax payer funds from the Democrats, his customers definitely skew left of center. I always thought Tesla was insanely over valued, but with all his bullshit and the major car manufacturers giving them competition now Tesla is bound to collapse…
Xesla has shaved $40k of the MSRP of their top end models since January.
I wonder why that is?
You mean aside from them literally losing features over time, adding bullshit recurring payments for basic technologies, and promising for like a decade that every year was THE YEAR full auto pilot would come out? Well aside from that stuff, it’s probably all that stuff the guy above said.
They do it to get under the new lower tax rebate limits for cars. Luxury cars are (rightly) getting less tax breaks than they used to. And Tesla is lowering prices to make sure their customers still get the rebates (which is still a huge reason anyone buys electric cars at this stage).
The irony is that Muskrat was railing against rebates and wanted them to be cancelled, but when sensible lowering of limits made his cars uncompetitive, he could magically lower the price to keep the competitive.
Yeah but in the era of supply side economics, selling bullshit to shareholders is what matters. The product is unimportant, what the shareholders think other shareholders think about the future of the product is what’s important to a business now.
Shareholders skew right (some psychotically so when you consider the Saudis), and that’s who Musk is selling bullshit to.
I wouldn’t be opposed to a law change where if a company that takes subsidies breaks the law, the state can nationalize it at no cost. That would solve a lot of issues.
why only when they took subsidies?
Companies that violate laws repeatedly or in particularly grave cases should always bs subject to seizure, if the management and bodies representing the shareholders did not adress the issues as soon as they had to know about it.
For publicly traded companies it is a bit tricky, but if the sourxe of problems is a majority shareholder then they should just seize his stocks.
South Africa is where his families money is from and he can still have power there.
Guantanamo Bay is where he belongs
My favorite was seeing a comment where someone said “i’m not going to believe the words of some dude trying to sell a book”
The US has spent at least 80 Billion dollars arming and supporting Ukraine in it’s defense against Russian genocidal aggression and Western expansion that puts the entire NATO block in jepordy, why is Elon fucking Musk allowed to put his thumb on the scale in favor of the enemy? Why isn’t anyone in the Biden administration tearing him a new asshole form stem to stern, why isn’t anyone in the Biden administration publicly discussing nationalizing Starlink. We’re literally throwing money into conflict (for absolutely necessary, vital, and justified reason) that one man is deciding the outcomes of, and the United States government is just … what … ok with this?
Pretty much - Muskrat most likely privately funds (read: bribes) enough government officials to either stand by and do nothing or actively interfere.
This advisor should also consider the lack of response from the US itself as part of the problem - Muskrat is helping out an enemy, but uhhh… what the fuck did the government do to curb that shit from happening in the first place?
I don’t feel like nationalizing Starlink for the USA is best for everyone. It is a world-wide network, I feel like it would be better as something that isn’t controlled by any single country (but, obviously I agree it should not be controlled by a single billionaire fuck-boy either…).
Go check out who runs GPS. Starling being nationalized isn’t happening, but if it did the service would likely keep on keeping on.
GPS is quite a bit different. The satellites just orbit and send the same information out. The user device doesn’t have to send anything back - the “communication” is only 1-way. Also, GPS is significantly further out from the planet and involves a lot less satellites, so it is not really feasible to turn them off specifically targeting a small area or an individual target - you’d have to black out a huge chunk of the planet to reliably block “an enemy” from using it.
One thing that seems to be the case with Biden’s administration - there’s a lot going on behinds the scenes that we’re not aware of.
You’re right, there should be some life changing repercussions for Musk. Hopefully we’ll find out those are in the works.
If we’ve learned anything from the Trump indictments, it takes many years to build a watertight case against somebody with lots of legal resources.
Do we need to hold Musk accountable? Yes. But also we need to do it in a way that he can’t wriggle out of, and that means years of legal work first.
Isn’t most of that $80 billion in the form of weaponry ordered from US manufacturers? Or maybe I’ve misunderstood. I thought much of the cash hasn’t really left America.
But yeah, musk needs to be stopped. No one person should have so much power, it makes a joke of democracy.
Most of it is actually old equipment they’re taking out of storage. Of course the US likes to have stuff like that around for various contingencies, one of which is the exact thing it’s being used for now. So new equipment will be bought for the US military and existing equipment will be placed into a storage a little sooner than usual.
But a big chunk of that price tag is ordinance, and yeah that needs to be re-ordered right away.
But at any rate, yeah nearly all of it is from US manufacturers, though there may be a few parts and things from allies like Canada.
It’s insane to me that the CEO of a private company can directly engage to change the outcome of a battle without the whole population completely losing their shit over it. This asshole turned off his product to intentionally prevent our ally from succeeding in a battle against our enemy. And his reason is that he was trying to prevent escalation. How the fuck is that his call to make?
Another “liberal” who hates democracy…
Why isn’t Biden just confiscating a private company??? Are you serious?
And what do you think calling for the state to take control of a business that disagrees with it’s policy goals is?
How are these things in any way related?
Democracy - the people voting on laws; representative democracy - the people voting for representatives to vote on laws
Nationalizing a company that provides a fundamental, necessary world wide service because one man decided he could determine the outcome of a battle.
Hmm… not really sure how these two things are related.
Why with all those billions are we relying on a private company for military communications? I’m not excusing Musk AT ALL, but communications are insanely important in a conflict. Why are these governments spending all of this money and not just doing it themselves? If the military ordered supplies from Walmart and Walmart didn’t deliver them, wouldn’t we be asking the government instead “why the hell did you do that?”
