SpaceX imposed new speed restrictions on Starlink satellite terminals used by Ukrainian forces overnight on Oct. 14, disrupting several military missions, Ukrainian activist and former Defense Ministry adviser Serhii Sternenko reported. Presidential adviser Serhii Beskrestnov, known as Flash, subsequently confirmed the restrictions.

On October 14, 2026, SpaceX imposed an unannounced speed limit on military-grade Starshield terminals used by Ukrainian forces, automatically cutting internet connectivity for terminals moving faster than 100 mph (160 km/h) and disrupting several high-speed military drone operations.

  • stoy@lemmy.zipEnglish
    150·
    21 hours ago

    Hah, Elon got a bit butthurt when his bots were taken down…

    • Labor Class@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      3615·
      21 hours ago

      Bots were not taken down 😀 Anyway, We should create awareness and advocate to not use of twitter

        • Victor@lemmy.worldEnglish
          27·
          21 hours ago

          I wrote my “independent” government news outlet to say that they should probably distance themselves from fascists.

          They wrote back, saying “right now, our mission is to reach as many as possible, and right now X has many of our followers.”

          Cowards.

          • m-p{3}@lemmy.caEnglish
            12·
            20 hours ago

            It wouldn’t cost them a lot to diversify and be present on more platforms to transition away, cowards indeed.

        • lechekaflan@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          6 hours ago

          Unfortunately, with a widespread reach it’s a platform bigger than Bluesky or Mastodon; the EFF made itself Bluesky-exclusive, so effectively reducing its reach, but some progressive news outlets like Al-Jazeera still maintains a presence on Twitter and is free to criticize Israeli and American actions.

      • im_fine_sandy@nord.pubEnglish
        161·
        19 hours ago

        I thought it was well established that bot traffic declined since the yanked data centre stuff.

        Is that not the case?

        • Aqarius@lemmy.worldEnglish
          95·
          16 hours ago

          The bots that were taken down on the “bot traffic” graph are web crawler bots used to index webpages for the yandex search engine. Propaganda “bots” aren’t actually labeled as “bot traffic”, for obvious reasons.

        • Eximius@lemmy.worldEnglish
          305·
          19 hours ago

          Yandex is a search engine, it has legitimate crawler bots. So this statistic is not really beneficial to the conversation.

          Also, most likely propaganda bots would be under the radar and not self-declaring as bots.

            • Eximius@lemmy.worldEnglish
              172·
              19 hours ago

              Unlikely. The “bot” traffic that cloudflare here identifies, is traffic according to the useragent, that is not an actual user + heuristics cloudflare uses to identify bot devices.

              Since ruski propaganda bots would want to act as legitimate users, spreading LLM and/or organically generated word soup, and/or pumping views. They not only have to not be identified as bots, but also to act well enough as a user no captcha and/or cloudflare bot identification catches them.