What an utter piece of shit.

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    1 year ago

    It may be a violation of the Logan Act, which makes it illegal for private citizens to interfere with foreign relations.

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      The Logan Act deals with private citizens negotiating with foreign governments. Unless he fucked with Starlink at the direct request of the Russian gov’t, I don’t see how the Logan Act applies. EDIT: apparently he did it after speaking with Russian government officials. So never mind, Logan Act is absolutely implicated.

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        *Foreign governments having a dispute with the United States. I don’t think this qualifies. Unfortunately.

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            What’s your point? We’re still not in a dispute with Russia. A proxy dispute, maybe, but we’re not in active conflict with them.

            I’m on your side! Elon is a fuckwit and Russia is run by a despot but I don’t think the Logan act applies