Elon Musk’s Starlink, a subsidiary of his company SpaceX, continues to play a major role in the war in Ukraine, to the extent that the tech billionaire is now under fire amid reports he suggested to US president Donald Trump that Starlink should be slowed down in the war-torn country.

According to The Telegraph, which cites four sources familiar with the discussions between Musk and Trump, the former approached the latter with the idea to impose speed limits on the internet system, with one of these sources claiming Trump “agreed” with the idea, which “[paved] the way for the Pentagon to execute the slowdown on [Starlink’s military counterpart] Starshield”.

On Thursday, a bipartisan letter was sent to the Pentagon’s inspector general, Platte B. Moring, asking for an investigation into whether the SpaceX or Department of Defense “directed, authorized, or implemented” any restrictions on Starlink or Starshield.

The question of who exactly was responsible for the slowdown of the Starshield service has prompted significant back-and-forth in recent days, with Al Jazeera reporting on the same day the aforementioned letter was sent that a defense advisor to Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky posted on Telegram that SpaceX had “implemented a speed limit” on Starlink terminals.

I want to runaway because I want to go protest. Maybe I want to be a martyr. Ice took my best friend, I don’t know what there is to do with my life now. I go to protests, but they’re not enough, they’re just slogans and chanting. Look at the French protesting VS America protesting. It’s not enough for me to just yell, how can you expect me to honor my friend by only doing that? I want to be angrier, I am angry but there’s no outlet.

If I ran away, if I gave up my future to a cause I believed in, would it be so bad?

I’m tired of this shit. I don’t think the people around me understand how lonely I am, maybe if I showed them how I feel they’d know, they’d know I lost a friend to something I’ve been fighting for a long time. But I can’t do that. I just can’t let myself be that vulnerable.

Lobbyists and politicians must think of our children as collateral damage

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