{"id":11505,"date":"2023-09-12T07:38:10","date_gmt":"2023-09-12T05:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/12\/tech-giants-hold-huge-sway-in-matters-of-war-life-and-death-that-should-concern-us-all-keir-giles\/"},"modified":"2023-09-12T07:38:10","modified_gmt":"2023-09-12T05:38:10","slug":"tech-giants-hold-huge-sway-in-matters-of-war-life-and-death-that-should-concern-us-all-keir-giles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/12\/tech-giants-hold-huge-sway-in-matters-of-war-life-and-death-that-should-concern-us-all-keir-giles\/","title":{"rendered":"Tech giants hold huge sway in matters of war, life and death. That should concern us all | Keir Giles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk\u2019s hindrance of a Ukraine attack via Starlink caused a row. But other firms have similar power, and need scrutiny<\/p>\n<p>The revelations that Ukrainian naval operations were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2023\/sep\/08\/elon-musk-committed-evil-starlink-order-ukraine\">blocked by a lack of support from Elon Musk\u2019s Starlink system<\/a> cast light on to his complex relationship with Russia and Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>But it is an area that deserves more light still, for Starlink\u2019s parent, SpaceX, is far from the only technology company playing a vital role in Ukraine\u2019s resistance against the Russian invasion. Household names such as Amazon, Google, Microsoft and others have also been essential to the defence of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2023\/sep\/12\/tech-giants-war-elon-musk-ukraine-starlink\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/7bedc530e5d18cfd639f04a39ee2c46765c3143e\/0_190_3000_1800\/master\/3000.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=fccab1d9c095b5910b880dae34ec6a84\" title=\"Tech giants hold huge sway in matters of war, life and death. That should concern us all | Keir Giles\" \/>Elon Musk\u2019s hindrance of a Ukraine attack via Starlink caused a row. But other firms have similar power, and need scrutiny<br \/>\nThe revelations that Ukrainian naval operations were blocked by a lack of support from Elon Musk\u2019s Starlink system cast light on to his complex relationship with Russia and Ukraine.<br \/>\nBut it is an area that deserves more light still, for Starlink\u2019s parent, SpaceX, is far from the only technology company playing a vital role in Ukraine\u2019s resistance against the Russian invasion. Household names such as Amazon, Google, Microsoft and others have also been essential to the defence of Ukraine. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk\u2019s hindrance of a Ukraine attack via Starlink caused a row. But other firms have similar power, and need scrutiny The revelations that Ukrainian naval operations were blocked by a lack of support from Elon Musk\u2019s Starlink system cast light on to his complex relationship with Russia and Ukraine. But it is an area &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/12\/tech-giants-hold-huge-sway-in-matters-of-war-life-and-death-that-should-concern-us-all-keir-giles\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tech giants hold huge sway in matters of war, life and death. That should concern us all | Keir Giles<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":11506,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11505"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}