“If it involves money. It’ll be on our platform. Money or securities or whatever. So, it’s not just like send $20 to my friend. I’m talking about, like, you won’t need a bank account.”

Well that sounds terrifying!

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    It was not cut off. Starlink was not enabled on the coast of Crimea in the first place. They asked Elon to enable it to which he said no.

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      They had previously had access, and then were denied further access by geofencing critical regions. That’s effectively the same as having services cut off.

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        Starlink was never enabled in Crimea because that would be against the sanctions placed by the US. You’re spreading misinformation.