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by quotz 854 days ago
My opinion is that he got seriously blackmailed. Musk meets Netayahu 27 Nov, and on 12 December its announced that SpaceX loses appeal for 1B in funding from the FCC regarding Starlink. There's probably lots of variables for losing the appeal, but considering how far the isreali lobby goes I really wont be surprised that they had influence, considering he was making Starlink available in Gaza for free.

And this is just the surface we can see, I wonder how far the rabbit hole goes, hes probably in the top 5 most famous people in the world, whatever he says online will reverberate far, hence the israeli top priority being to change his mind carrot or stick. In addition, he admitted to having a mild form of Aspergers, so I guess social pressure and persuasion definitely impacts him differently than neurotypical folks.

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Exactly. God knows what happened behind closed doors. I hope the truth emerges one day.
since when we do politics on HN ? those discussions are not going to resolve anything, maybe we should stick to you talk about hacker news ?
Theres all kinds of political articles on the front page coming up daily. From Russia and China, to Iran, to Republicans and Democrats, and Latin American politics. Whats been missing lately is Palestine. And thats mostly because they get flagged to oblivion because of the obvious overrepresentation of zionist voices on this platform and the tech community
Politics came to the tech community in the form of Israeli manipulation of tech platforms and militant, blacklisting Zionism from the VCs. Israel caused this.
I doubt that the truth will come out