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Senators Demand IG Probe After Musk Ordered Starlink Restrictions

By Drooid · Oct 23, 2026, 2:08 AM UTC · How we work

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Elon Musk personally ordered speed restrictions on Starlink’s military-grade Starshield terminals in Ukraine.
Investor Ross Gerber, CEO of Gerber Kawasaki, condemned the throttling as unreliable for national-security use.
U.S. senators from both parties demanded an urgent inspector-general probe into possible security breaches.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called the slowdown a “big mistake.”
Economist Paul Krugman warned that no private individual should control national-security policy, calling it U.S. intervention.

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Elon Musk personally ordered speed restrictions on Starlink’s military-grade Starshield terminals in Ukraine.
Investor Ross Gerber, CEO of Gerber Kawasaki, condemned the throttling as unreliable for national-security use.
U.S. senators from both parties demanded an urgent inspector-general probe into possible security breaches.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called the slowdown a “big mistake.”
Economist Paul Krugman warned that no private individual should control national-security policy, calling it U.S. intervention.