A WIRED investigation reveals that criminals who make billions from scam compounds in Myanmar—where tens of thousands of people are enslaved—are using Starlink to get online.
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What if PutaIn gave TnX Russian citizenship and in exchange TnX gave his oligarchs US citizenship for the new $5mln price tag. Would maga be upset then? WTF is happening. Why is shElon so bored with 16 kids & billions of dollars.
I mean, he's been pretty openly pro-slavery for some time now. Remember when he was talking about using debt slavery to laborers for his imaginary Mars colony?
I'm absolutely SHOCKED to hear that the guy whose family became wealthy through apartheid slave labor mining is encouraging Myanmar slave labor to further enrich himself.
It’s of NO Surprise that Elon is Selling Access to Criminals who Scam, Enslave and Traffic humanity. Anything goes for Musk as long as it enriches him!
I'm sure they didn't sign up under the name Myanmar Enslavement Company. They probably used different names like the NGOs that funneled money to HAMAS.
Wow the richest man alive, who came from money gained from an emerald mine in apartheid South Africa, is benefiting from slave labor? Who could have seen this coming? It's cool though, he just wants to expand the light of human consciousness throughout the stars lol.
Character always matters, always. Observe people's actions, not their words. Musk has shown himself to be a threat for a long time, people did not want to see it. His immoral actions, his disdain for people's rights, his willingness to lie and cheat to gather more power all tell a story. A dark one.
This is very shitty. But can we expect providers of the internet to be responsible for what the users are doing? I say this as someone who hates Elon Musk.
Elon Musk should be in prison, or failing that, exiled from the US with his US assets seized. nobody has ever needed to be politically persecuted more than tech billionaires.
Don't worry about that specific point. Plenty of Mr. Beasts, Trumps and influencers out there standing in line to take Musk's job of shilling Dogecoin and poocoin.
a South African claiming to be a world leading intellect, when all his riches were built on nothing more than slave labor.
Now where have I heard that one before…
#Starlink Giddy with promises made, its hosts welcomed it over the threshold. Once anchored, it grew--a vast web of dependency masked as connectivity. The web, unmasked as a metastatic cancer with an on/off switch controlled by a narcissistic sociopath, is tightening now, a global weapon of control.
Musk disabled Starlink when he didn’t like Ukraine’s actions against Russia, so now he can disable it for those criminals enslaving others, but him probably won’r as these are ‘fellow business men’
It's in the rest of the US. California isn't special. Propaganda just causes people to not realize that and what prison labor actually entails so it wasn't voted to be stopped
Potential Musk DOGE employees. Did he not post seeking super high-IQ" people to work more than 80 hours a week for free… and got Mr. Big Balls and other similarly presumptuous self-aggrandizing vaunters. Setting the “high IQ” aside the respective teams appear to be working for the same pay.
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We have an insanely evil president!
I hate Musk as much as the next guy, but come on
Starlink should have seen, and understood, the massive data flows from these remote terminals.
(Afrikaans for "apartness"), a system of racial segregation in South Africa that lasted from 1948 to 1994.
Explains a lot.
It is a shame.
He’s fired most of the US regulators who were investigating his companies.
No, it's the entire world's problem.
Now where have I heard that one before…
Highly recommend canceling your WaPo and NYT subscriptions and subbing to Wired instead. Huge improvement!
Musk is ALL about freedom of speech.
https://youtu.be/mh1oQjQ1t3U?si=hf-O876WlqhUw4n_