Reports this week revealed that illegal gold miners in Brazil’s Amazon have been using Musk’s Starlink internet technology for their operations.
Perhaps not even the biggest Elon Musk detractors could have imagined one of his ventures being linked to unethical mining.revealed that illegal gold miners in Brazil’s Amazon have been using Musk’s Starlink high-speed internet technology as a novel tool for illicit operations.
Illegal miners have long relied on internet as a means for communication, but the logistics involved in setup and the luck needed for it to work without getting caught by law enforcement, would have been a gamble. So Musk’s Starlink may have been seen as a safer bet.
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