K1052
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I was reading some on this. The problem that SpaceX is dealing with is there is a bunch of Starlink terminals in Ukraine that are not registered with Ukraine. These are terminals bought by volunteers and being paid for by someone outside of Ukraine and never transferred to Ukraine. Russia is getting around this by buying the terminals in the EU or other places the terminals are for sale and then using front person to pay for the service using euros. If SpaceX just blocked every terminal not registered with the UA this would impact those terminals bought by volunteers. Does SpaceX block all terminals not registered with the UA government?
Maybe they do unless there is another way technically we are not aware of. Their government can get anything they missed whitelisted after the fact. This is something that’s going to require a solution and not just for Ukraine.