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nova9001 t1_iv4kg9g wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in Ukraine suffered a comms outage when 1,300 SpaceX satellite units went offline over funding issues by thatoneguy889

>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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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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