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NEW: “Elon Musk’s Starlink is installed above all the buildings in the campus where we are now. Now the fraud work is running normally," a human-trafficking victim wrote. A WIRED investigation into reports of criminals running multibillion-dollar empires across Southeast Asia using Starlink:

wired.comElon Musk’s Starlink Is Keeping Modern Slavery Compounds OnlineA 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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“I believe that SpaceX must have the capacity to stop this problem." Our 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.

wired.comElon Musk’s Starlink Is Keeping Modern Slavery Compounds OnlineA 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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The use of Starlink comes as officials in Thailand, Myanmar, and China have recently attempted to crack down on scam compounds, freeing thousands. However, support services for trafficking victims have faced USAID funding cuts from Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE.

wired.comElon Musk’s Starlink Is Keeping Modern Slavery Compounds OnlineA 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.
JLK Greystone
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Coincidence or securing his revenue flow from Asia, et, al. and strengthening alliances with international criminal organizations? I lean to the latter being closer to the truth than the former. But I'm just a nobody with an opinion.

re:Parsons
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Knowing Musk could stop this, but doesn't, consider the dangerous long-term concern: Musk controlling basic communications infrastructure with Starlink. He could shut off infrastructure he doesn't like at a whim. We can not afford to use Starlink anywhere.

El condor pasa
@el-condor-pasa.bsky.social

Exactly. He’s surgically attaching his business to critical infrastructure, trashing a contract already assigned, to bailout his businesses. No telling what he and his loyalists are willing to do for their leader, what data to pass too.

El condor pasa
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Let me be clear: I don’t want to destroy starlink installations. Period. But what are the technical and non-big brain ways of destroying starlink installations on top of buildings without direct physical contact? Obviously rifles are a concern, but potato cannons seem more playful.