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[deleted] t1_iv3vn1x wrote

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CaptainRho t1_iv3y0h2 wrote

Ukraine paid him for the terminals, and he charged more than the usual rate for them. He tried to claim the cost to run them was thousands of dollars a month when others can buy access for hundreds of dollars a month. Because of the the US moved in to pay. At no point was Starlink working for free except on Elon's Twitter profile when he was pretending to be magnanimous in the early stages of the war.

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[deleted] t1_iv3ytdz wrote

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[deleted] t1_iv42dxr wrote

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[deleted] t1_iv431p4 wrote

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nova9001 t1_iv4kn2o wrote

https://www.space.com/spacex-starlink-elon-musk-ukraine-explainer

>The U.S. military has weighed in recently as well. Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder, the DoD press secretary, confirmed on Tuesday that the Pentagon hasn't paid SpaceX any money for Starlink services in Ukraine to date, Space News reported (opens in new tab).

Wrong the American government has not paid a single cent for it. And while Musk claims some countries paid, he never claimed UK was one of them.

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nova9001 t1_iv4kg9g wrote

>I'm sorry, but exactly when did private industry become obligated to support National Policy for free?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starlink_satellite_services_in_Ukraine

>On February 26, 2022, while Russian columns were advancing to take Ukraine's capital Kyiv, Ukraine's Minister of Digital Transformation of Ukraine Mykhailo Fedorov asked Elon Musk on Twitter to provide assistance to Ukraine in the form of Starlinks.[5][4] Musk/Starlink reacted instantly: Ukraine's Starlink service was immediately activated (as it was not in a list of accessible countries before), while Musk/Starlink sent the first shipment to Ukraine, which arrived on February 28.[6][7][8][9][10]

Nobody forced Elon Musk to do anything. He himself gave Ukraine the services for free. The US government was not involved in the negotiations.

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[deleted] t1_iv4px18 wrote

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nova9001 t1_iv51yxp wrote

I don't think you understand the issue here even.

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nova9001 t1_iv71277 wrote

Nobody forced Elon Musk to provide anything. He did so out of his own free will, that includes the free services.

Its Elon Musk who's demanding the US government foot the bill not the other way around.

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