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Of course it's flagged again. I know it's politics. It's also technology. We have a tech company CEO, telling a foreign minister of a country, one of the bigge

Of course it's flagged again. I know it's politics. It's also technology. We have a tech company CEO, telling a foreign minister of a country, one of the biggest US ally in EU: "Be quiet, small man. You pay a tiny fraction of the cost. And there is no substitute for Starlink." Hell of a sales pitch for critical, national security grade, equipment. Given the history of Musk lies, it's pretty certain that Poland / EU is actually paying the whole cost of said Starlinks. It's also pretty sure that EU countries buying US military equipement is about to end. Even from Poland, which historically was buying a lot of US made equipment, against the wishes of EU. If you wanted to piss off a favorable to you Eastern European country, you would be hard pressed to find a better way than saying 'Be quiet, small man'.

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ddxv 2y ago
The flagging of articles critical of SpaceX/Tesla are pretty interesting. Every now and then one breaks through to the front page, but an amazing about get flagged. It's hard not to see the connection of YCombinator to Musk, maybe just a lot of people here are happy to defend him.
- rsynnott 2y ago
  > maybe just a lot of people here are happy to defend him. Also likely a lot of people who bought Tesla stock at silly valuations, and bought into the need to defend him at all costs. One for Matt Levine (of "everything is securities fraud" fame); is it securities fraud to suppress negative news about the CEO of a company you own shares in on a niche webform?
- tmikaeld 2y ago
  About that, it's clear that thousands of people read articles on HN but extremely few of them actually upvote anything. Please do that, it only takes a second but makes a huge difference.
me_me_me 2y ago
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