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https://thehill.com/policy/defense/4193788-musk-acknowledges-he-turned-off-starlink-internet-access-last-year-during-ukraine-attack-on-russia-military/
"That is exactly what happened"
Except for the part where Musk himself admitted it wasn't so.
If you view the comments above you'll see that your quote was from a biography, Musk has always denied this, and since then the author of the biography has said he got it wrong.
Starlink has never operated in Crimea.
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1699917639043404146?s=46&t=bZcrLpl8DTxSpYLBntBfhQ
It never operated in Crimea, but there's a huge difference between "We can't do it even if you ask us." and "We won't do it even if you ask us." In that case it's the second option.
I'm sure they technically could, but legally they can't.
And they would have gotten sued by the government that was providing the weapons used to blow up Russian targets?
Musk got himself involved in the war and got in the way of his country's ally, he should be in jail and his company should have been seized.
Probably not sued, no. The government doesn't need to sue a business to reprimand it for breaking the law.
It's pretty clear you don't even have a basic understanding of how the law works. And you've moved back to "got in the way", as if he actively blocked something specifically to prevent Ukraine's attack.
The service never worked there and he wasn't allowed to turn it on. That's all there is to it, regardless of how angrily you tap on your keyboard.
If I had agreed to their request, then SpaceX would be explicitly complicit in a major act of war and conflict escalation.Yes, he actively blocked something specifically to prevent Ukraine's attack.
The request he referred to was turning it on. The US had already told him not to operate in that area. He didn't block it to prevent the attack, it was already blocked because the US told him he had to.