Elon Musk says Starlink won't block Russian
state media in Ukraine: 'Sorry to be a
free speech absolutist'
Fox Business News,
by
Brie Stimson
Original Article
Posted By: Dreadnought,
3/5/2022 10:03:51 AM
Elon Musk overnight said "some governments" had asked SpaceX to block Russian state media on its Starlink internet satellites but said, "We will not do so unless at gunpoint."
He specified it wasn’t a request from Ukraine, adding, "Sorry to be a free speech absolutist." When a commenter argued that Russia state media was propaganda, Musk replied that "All news sources are partially propaganda, some more than others." Earlier, he tweeted that SpaceX had prioritized "cyber defense & overcoming signal jamming," having said a day earlier that in some parts of Ukraine Starlink was the only non-Russian communications system working and it was likely to be targeted.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
marbles 3/5/2022 10:41:58 AM (No. 1090598)
The MSM is not blocked from sending out propaganda.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
earlybird 3/5/2022 10:43:50 AM (No. 1090602)
Someone who pretty much ignored Elon Musk, I now find him very interesting and a deeper thinker than I imagined. Much as we dislike Putin, these countries can manage his propaganda. We’ve been getting it here on RT (Russian state media) and our own MSM for a long time. I read that RT just folded up its own US operation.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
MindMadeUp 3/5/2022 10:55:00 AM (No. 1090622)
Wow, actual free speech. What a concept. I wish we had that written into our Constitution!
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Rich323 3/5/2022 11:00:21 AM (No. 1090630)
President Trump acknowledged Musk’s accomplishments at the Spacex Launch. That speech was rarely broadcast by any network but was full of important information. Biden and company have brushed Musk aside for their pet union projects especially In Detroit.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
oldmagnolia 3/5/2022 11:05:30 AM (No. 1090639)
#2 Elon Musk is a fully functioning autistic. They are extremely intelligent. Their brains function different than the rest of us. They see the truth, they tell it like it is and they don't lie. They have tremendous sarcasm in the process. Do not underestimate him. I have a grandson like that. He is 12. He is in the regular classes in school. He excels at math and science. He is the best student in his class. The teachers love him. He is reading a book on astrophysics. He says I read it slowly because I want to understand it. He wants to finish high school quickly, go to college to study aerospace engineering. The other day, the teacher announced she was going to have a "science fair" and asked the students what they were going to prepare. Our grandson told her he was going to write about the parallel universe. The teacher didn't know what to do.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Strike3 3/5/2022 11:12:10 AM (No. 1090649)
Musk is a smart and honorable man. Too bad he spent all of that time on electric cars.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
NYbob 3/5/2022 11:27:52 AM (No. 1090669)
#6, Just one area of activity. He also founded a rocket company that in the space of 10 years went from zero to completely changing how rockets are built and recovered. Went right past NASA and entire governments, like Russia. He also has created groundbreaking efforts in brain/machine links, tunneling tech, internet distribution via his own satellite company, battery tech, and more innovations at a pace no one thought possible.
The fact that he isn't Gates, Cuban, Zuckerberg, Bezos, or any other billionaire, is fantastic.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Highvoltage 3/5/2022 11:58:00 AM (No. 1090715)
Musk is a man that Zuckerberg is not and will never be.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
snowoutlaw 3/5/2022 12:02:00 PM (No. 1090721)
Just so you all know SpaceX is not the only source for satellite internet in the Ukraine or most of the world. All this is nothing but a publicity stunt.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
stablemoney 3/5/2022 12:15:07 PM (No. 1090743)
A great policy by Elon Musk. I am a free speech absolutist as well. The U.S. censors all free speech of conservatives, and now foreign news outlets, which report the news more accurately than the U.S. state run media.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
SALady 3/5/2022 12:46:47 PM (No. 1090784)
Sure, Russia has their state media to be their propagandists.
But Ukraine has had the entire MSM to be their propagandists during this invasion.
Oh that somewhere -- anywhere -- there would be some news media that actually just reported the news!!!
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
DVC 3/5/2022 12:51:17 PM (No. 1090788)
I'm OK with that. If I was in charge, I wouldn't have run RT off our channels, but I essentially never watched it, either.
I got plenty of Russian propaganda working with some of their nuclear weapons managers on non-weapons peaceful projects. At one point, I was really shocked to have a Russian project manager just lie to my face about stuff that he couldn't fake, like whether a critical path fixture was completed or not. Obvious stuff.
I discovered that he considered information coming from me to the workers making some testing fixtures to be something that he didn't pass on, for reasons unknown. So, I got the lead engineer's fax number, and worked up drawings and sketches with notes on the fixturing, had our Russian secretary translate the notes, and fax it directly. When on site, the lead engineer (a former Spetnast colonel) and I communicated very well with only sketches and equations, "languages" universal to engineers and scientists.
Bypassing the lying, incompetent (sabotaging?) project manager was the only way I got the project completed on time with success. It later found out that he was the son of an important leader of their nuke R&D institute, and a year later was put in charge of the whole place.
But, i had good, competent Russian scientists and engineers on several projects, too. Their bureaucrats are the ones to watch out for the most, and I guess that's just like here.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
hope27 3/5/2022 6:02:40 PM (No. 1091017)
I like Dennis Miller.
Miss him on talk radio. He read the room and stopped talking politics and left the public airwaves. In 2020 he again re-invented himself by hosting a twice-weekly show featuring celebrity interviews, on RT America. Out of curiosity checked out other things on the channel. Can't stand our media, so why not. It used to be healthy to hear other perspectives, or is it now called propaganda.
Loathe the globalists and what they have done to our world. Pray daily.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
MickTurn 3/5/2022 6:26:27 PM (No. 1091033)
At least we know who the liars are...they paste the mask on every morning and it says LIAR on their forhead!
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