Billionaire Elon Musk transferred a certain amount of equipment and services of the Starlink satellite network under the control of the Pentagon. About this The Washington Post Walter Isaacson, the entrepreneur's biographer, said.
Musk's biographer clarified that it is about the part of the Starlink satellites used by the Armed Forces. Fearing that the use of SpaceX technology could lead to a nuclear war, the entrepreneur thus absolved himself of responsibility for the limits and rules of using the technology.
"He said, 'Why am I in this war? I created Starlink so people could relax, watch movies on Netflix, and play video games. I didn't want to create something that could cause a nuclear war," Isaacson quoted the billionaire as saying.
In his opinion, Musk did the right thing when he decided on such a step.
“What he did, and I think that's the right result, he decided to sell and give full control of a certain amount of Starlink equipment and Starlink services to the US military so that he no longer controls the geofences. I think that was his way. to say, 'I've got to get out of this,'" Isaacson declared.
Recall that the American edition of CNN in September published an excerpt from a book about Elon Musk, which discussed possible involvement in the disappearance of the Starlink satellite signal near Crimea in the first months of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. But, Elon Musk stated that he did not turn off the communication over Crimea, because "he simply did not turn it on."
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