Ukraine’s digital minister has reported concerns about the country’s overreliance on Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite internet system amid the war with Russia, The New York Times reports.

  • areyouevenreal
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    71 year ago

    It’s not a Ukrainian company is the problem. You can’t just nationalise a foreign entity.

    • @hglman
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      Should belong to the UN.

      • JasSmith
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        The U.S. isn’t a banana republic. That’s how they roll in Venezuela and it’s not working out so well. They’re certainly not going to undermine the integrity of the U.S. economy to provide marginally more intel security to Ukraine. The government can make an offer to purchase SpaceX, but I don’t see why they need to.

        • roguetrick
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          That’s such a strange way to use banana republic. Banana republics were created after the US instituted coups due to the threat of land reform (nationalization of US company owned plantation land). Denying the right to nationalize things is what creates banana republics. (Not that I think anyone should do something so stupid as try to nationalize satellites they have no access to.)