Irish Examiner view: Musk has to stop playing these silly games

A piece of infrastructure as vital as Ukraine's internet connectivity ought not be subject to a billionaire's playground antics

Elon Musk has been engaging in childish teasing about Russia and Ukraine when the former is waging an illegal war against the latter. File picture: Britta Pedersen/Getty

Starlink is a satellite-based internet concern owned and run by SpaceX, the American spacecraft manufacturer and space launch provider which is in turn owned by the world’s richest man, Elon Musk. 

Since the illegal Russian invasion of Ukraine in February, Starlink has been providing satellite internet terminals to the Ukrainian government, which have been vital in keeping the country’s military online during the war with Russia, even as terrestrial communications infrastructure is being destroyed on a daily basis.