I'd agree, but on the other hand, it isn't entirely HN users' fault that scummy journalists intentionally misreport and/or don't circulate their corrections as

I'd agree, but on the other hand, it isn't entirely HN users' fault that scummy journalists intentionally misreport and/or don't circulate their corrections as loudly as their initial accusations. Plus, I doubt those critical of the arms industry would be complaining about Google offering to take on defense contracts specifically intended to help Ukraine. If anything, they'd be complaining about Google not just paying for it out of pocket, as they did when SpaceX said that providing Starlink for free for an indefinite period of time would be financially unrealistic for them. My understanding is that Starshield isn't an entirely separate constellation, it's a special mode of existing Starlink for which the DoD controls cell activations, probably has priority usage of some portion of bandwidth, plus custom terminals and the ability to have Starlink satellites with hosted payloads (which, by nature of being Starlink satellites, would be able to take advantage of the rest of the network for their own communications, enabling things like extremely hard to detect point-to-point beamed communications anywhere in the world).