Putin Reportedly Asked Elon Musk Not to Activate Starlink over Taiwan

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21 points·kombookcha··5 comments

This doesn't line up with the facts of what has been known prior.

Taiwan law requires foreign communication providers to be a joint partnership with the Taiwan entity controlling majority stake. This was a deal breaker with StarLink and the talks fell apart.

>Taipei has been exploring ways to acquire satellite internet technology since 2018, including in talks with SpaceX. But Mr. Musk balked at a requirement that any foreign entity involved in communications infrastructure be a joint venture with a local partner that would hold a majority stake. Mr. Musk considered this “totally unacceptable,”

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/14/business/taiwan-starlink-...

I'm not one of those reflexive Elon Haters, or onboard with the most leftwing radicals. I consider myself pretty middle of the road, but I am American and I believe that traitors should be dealt with as traitors. The United States (including control of our space assets) cannot be taking orders from Putin, a man who wants us destroyed. Elon must face the full consequences of his treason, including the ultimate punishment.

>I'm not one of those reflexive Elon Haters

Yet you immediately jump to call for his arrest because of an alleged question which we don't know his answer to. If he had said yes i imagine the article would say so.

Taiwan isn't the only problem Elon is making more difficult by cozying up to Putin. All of this is way out of bounds. Putin is in a hot war in Europe that, if not contained and defeated where it is, will spread throughout Europe. Our government can't be paying him subsidies or relying on his products.

Your government is going to be paying him more and relying more on his products.

Can't imagine the whining if it was denied to them in the first place.

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