Musk is charging Ukraine $2500 per month per Starlink terminal, for over 250,000 terminals. Musk is making bank for shitty service (it’s not fast enough for gaming) and then he cuts services for partisan purposes, costing Ukrainian lives.
The upsell maneuver reminds me of when Verizon tried to do the same thing to California wildfire response services when communications cut out during disaster control efforts. That didn’t play well, either.
The fact that a country under attack needs to pay for these kind of things is already insane by itself.
@realitaetsverlust @technology It’s true, there is no free lunch.
“Would you like to upgrade to our non-annihilation plan?”
- Corporations in 2026, apparently
Fuck no.
Fuck this absolute cunt who’s the biggest drain on society since Nero.
I just still cannot believe that happened and just…no one cares.
I’m being pedantic, but there are those of who obviously care that this fuck nugget did this.
Nobody who matters cares.
We don’t matter :/
I thought the same as I typed my comment…
The president cut service though. Musk does what he is told with prez, his entire fortune is based on government contracts, he would never defy prez, he was clearly asked to take the blame for this, and OP here is misguided to repeat that lie without moderation.
Putin may have delivered a “that’s a nice satellite system, it woukd be a shame if something happened to it” message.
More like, those are some interesting tapes and evidence of you mr us president fucking children. Be a shame if they got released along with the pictures of your tiny dick, and all that.
Besides, satelite wars are a dangerous game, both the US and russia have them in place in orbit, and both have been making suspicious maneuvers I read. China probably too but idk what they are up to. But once it starts, it will cover the orbit in debris that will make satelite launches much more dicey as even a speck of dust at the speeds involved can break one of these satelites.
Hope the EU can get their own network up fast, because Elon is Ukraine’s enemy, he will always cut off service when they need it most.
Apparently the TOS muskrat claimed were violated by Ukraine using starlink for ‘‘offensive’’ purposes, were really just TOS for the lower paid service level.
I know this one, you call up spectrum and you get a year trial.
“pray i don’t alter it any further”…That extortion has an end date, hopefully 2030, when the EU’s Iris2 gets operational. Until then however Elon can play his nasty game, at least for the higher quality level of the service.
*fingers crossed
And there it is. Fuckers.
Removed by mod
Teslas in a few years:
“We notice that you’re in an uncontrolled spin; uncontrolled spins violate Tesla’s terms and conditions; your airbags have been deactivated. Upgrade now to the super spender safety plan for a one off payment of $30k to unlock instant airbag activation”.
I see billboards for Starlink Roam and the tagline is “Roam Anywhere” or something and I’m like “Except for Ukraine, apparently.”
