SECRETARY RUBIO: In the United States, nobody ordered that Starlink's speed be slowed down.
SECRETARY RUBIO: In the United States, nobody ordered that Starlink's speed be slowed down.
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On Star, on Starshield, what's going on? Because, Elon Musk said it's up to the president Well, Starshield or Starlink? Well just, well, yeah, I know, it's confusing So Starlink is a commercial product okay? And, and, and so you'll, they, they it's regulated and handled as a commercial product Starshield is a defense product a military product, and, as I said, I mean, that, that is something that that we have a the military, United States military uses It's not at this moment available to Ukraine and that's under conversation. I mean it's under discussion right now about how they would want to use it No, but did the US did the US have anything to do with it not working in Ukraine at the moment? Zelensky said it was deliberate Well, I don't know what Zelensky said I'm not sure Zelensky knows what he's talking about but it wasn't deliberate we had nothing to do with that I don't, I don't, the United States nobody ordered that Starlink speed to be slowed down It sort of happened but my understanding is it's been restored It's back to where it was before so That Starlink, though they were using Starlink for their drones Is the Starshield been restored? Starshield is a totally different product Starshield is a, no, no Starshield is a contract with the US military It has nothing to do with Ukraine I know Ukraine wants access to Starshield They do not have Starshield now They've asked for access to it in order to conduct deep strikes inside of Russia They do not have access to it at this moment Those are two different products But, but you have to have a theory as to why obviously, Ukraine has acquired disruptions Yeah, I don't know what their theory is but it wa- nothing to do with the White House. I saw a report on that the other day. It's just categorically false No one at the White House ordered anyone to slow down internet or slow down speed so that certain drones couldn't use it But my understanding is it's back up and running. That's what I read you know it's what we heard two days ago
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SECRETARY RUBIO: In the United States, nobody ordered that Starlink's speed be slowed down.
On Star, on Starshield, what's going on? Because, Elon Musk said it's up to the president Well, Starshield or Starlink? Well just, well, yeah, I know, it's confusing So Starlink is a commercial product okay? And, and, and so you'll, they, they it's regulated and handled as a commercial product Starshield is a defense product a military product, and, as I said, I mean, that, that is something that that we have a the military, United States military uses It's not at this moment available to Ukraine and that's under conversation. I mean it's under discussion right now about how they would want to use it No, but did the US did the US have anything to do with it not working in Ukraine at the moment? Zelensky said it was deliberate Well, I don't know what Zelensky said I'm not sure Zelensky knows what he's talking about but it wasn't deliberate we had nothing to do with that I don't, I don't, the United States nobody ordered that Starlink speed to be slowed down It sort of happened but my understanding is it's been restored It's back to where it was before so That Starlink, though they were using Starlink for their drones Is the Starshield been restored? Starshield is a totally different product Starshield is a, no, no Starshield is a contract with the US military It has nothing to do with Ukraine I know Ukraine wants access to Starshield They do not have Starshield now They've asked for access to it in order to conduct deep strikes inside of Russia They do not have access to it at this moment Those are two different products But, but you have to have a theory as to why obviously, Ukraine has acquired disruptions Yeah, I don't know what their theory is but it wa- nothing to do with the White House. I saw a report on that the other day. It's just categorically false No one at the White House ordered anyone to slow down internet or slow down speed so that certain drones couldn't use it But my understanding is it's back up and running. That's what I read you know it's what we heard two days ago
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