[falaki]

I hear after the Ukraine war, Starlink became very good at thwarting jamming. I am confident the Iranians are not as sophisticated as the Russians in than front.

[lostlogin]

> Starlink became very good at thwarting jamming.

Musk proved quite good at blocking Ukrainian Starlink access too, supporting Russia.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-66752264

[ReptileMan]

The Russians are themselves heavy users of starlink.

[null_deref]

Can you provide a source for this claim?

[gilrain]

That link says the story was retracted.

[zamadatix]

The original claim:

> The biography, due out on Tuesday, alleges Musk ordered Starlink engineers to turn off service in the area of the attack because of his concern that Vladimir Putin would respond with nuclear weapons to a Ukrainian attack on Russian-occupied Crimea. He is reported to have said that Ukraine was “going too far” in threatening to inflict a “strategic defeat” on the Kremlin.

The amendment on the article:

> This article was amended on 14 September 2023 to add an update to the subheading. As the Guardian reported on 12 September 2023, following the publication of this article, Walter Isaacson retracted the claim in his biography of Elon Musk that the SpaceX CEO had secretly told engineers to switch off Starlink coverage of the Crimean coast.

So maybe Starlink did turn it off or maybe it was just jammed in some way or maybe, well... anything really. All this says is the source retracts the claim and The Guardian doesn't clarify beyond that. Edit: if you click the hyperlink for the name it actually clarifies it as a full on mistake in where there would be coverage.

[rvnx]

But isn’t Iran under sanctions? Do sanctions not apply when you are the richest man in the world ?