Elon Musk Fears His Starlink Could Be Misused to Trigger ‘WW3’
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has said he fears that his rocket company’s Starlink satellite Internet system could be misused in a way that could “lead to WW3.”
Musk raised the alarm after former NASA astronaut Scott Kelly challenged him on Twitter to “support” Ukraine.
Kelly was responding to reports that Starlink would limit access to the war-torn nation’s military amid fears the system was being “weaponized.”
During the early months of the war last year, Musk donated Starlink’s service to Ukraine for free after Russia took out infrastructure to take down the country’s Internet.
Starlink uses to network of satellites to beam its Internet connection down to the ground and can provide access to anywhere in the world, even the most remote parts of the globe.
“Ukraine desperately needs your continued support,” Kelly tweeted Musk.
“Please restore the full functionality of your Starlink satellites.
“Defense from a genocidal invasion is not an offensive capability.
“It’s survival. Innocent lives will be lost,” he wrote.
“You can help. Thank you.”
However, Musk shot back that Kelly was “smart enough not to swallow media & other propaganda bs.”
He stressed that the SpaceX-run internet service remains “the communication backbone of Ukraine, especially at the front lines, where almost all other Internet connectivity has been destroyed.
“But we will not enable escalation of conflict that may lead to WW3,” Musk warned.
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