Comment by qlte
1 day ago
You yourself might want to do a quick Google search or AI chat and note:
Musk says SpaceX did restrict Starlink, as Ukraine says the tech has been restored
https://www.npr.org/2026/10/24/nx-s1-6015482/ukraine-starlin...
> In a post on social media site X, Musk said that Ukraine had been violating Starlink's terms of service by using it for offensive military activity.
> On Saturday, Ukraine said that Starlink and the military's use of the related Starshield technology were back to high operating speeds after more than a week of disruptions.
> Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on X that the restoration began overnight.
> "The most important thing today is that Starlink and Starshield operations have been restored to the speeds we had before the restrictions," Zelenskyy said. "The speeds are now where they need to be."
I don't see how that refutes the points of the above comment. What you posted is logically consistent with it. Deductively, it's possible that Starshield, fully controlled by US Gov and given to Ukraine by US Gov was temporarily limited/revoked by US Gov due to some potentially geopolitical-escalation-relevant tactical disagreement crisis, and concurrently or as a fallback Ukrainian forces surreptitiously used civilian Starlinks for offensive military activity and that part was then understandably stopped because of Starlink ToS enforcement.
Still no conclusive proof of the Starshield access side being controlled by SpaceX - just ambiguous "wet streets cause rain" causal inferences and assumptions worded ambiguously - conspiracy theory promulgation.
It does however seem that commentators and media do not like the Starlink ToS and would prefer to have a civilian telecom somehow maintain global licenses with hundreds of countries while also surreptitiously becoming a mercenary operation with selective modification of its ToS based on their preferences of who is involved.