Close Menu
    Welt

    Das Satellitenunternehmen Planet Labs will Kriegsbilder aus dem Iran auf unbestimmte Zeit zurückhalten

    Share.
    View 14 Comments

    14 Kommentare

    3. Loose_Skill6641 on

      doesn’t matter because Russian and Chinese are still supplying photos and US government can’t stop those unless they want to blow up Chinese and Russian satellites

    4. macross1984 on

      Trump doesn’t want Americans to know how incompetent he is as commander-in-chief.

      Come to think about it, he was an active draft dodgers during Vietnam war by using deferment of dubious nature and protection from his family.

    5. IgnoranceIsTheEnemy on

      Trump doesn’t want people seeing what is happening in Iran.

      Doubly so if there is a ground invasion. His presidency has survived rape, fraud and claims of child abuse, but dead marines on beaches might be what ends it.

    7. Cyzax007 on

      Criminals always try to hide their crimes. Criminal countries even more so…

    8. OnePilotDrone on

      You know the war is going extremely bad when you have to self censor yourself in order to stop the public from being able to see the damage done to your bases and assets in the middle east.

    9. TemporarySun314 on

      There are still the European sentinel satellites from ESA.

      They have less resolution, as they are intended for scientific purposes (that’s why they also have detectors for non-visible light).

      But they make a picture of nearly every place on earth once a day, and can be viewed for free by everyone. I never heard of an occasion where they censored things.

    11. CoachoftheYear2025 on

      I’m a former Fed attorney with a degree in international outer space law and served on a federal advisory committee on commercial space issues. 

      This „ask“ of Planet Labs is both unconstitutional as a prior restraint but also goes against the Administration’s own policies promoting low regulation of commercial space.  

      There are absolutely statutes that allow the government to restrict imagery for national defense.  This however is not for national defense, this is to prevent media criticism of strategic fuck ups, like repeatedly parking very very expensive aircraft the military relies on well within range of Iranian drones and ballistic missiles.  This is not a national security issue… This is a Trump and Hegseth are fucking morons and they want to censor the media by limiting publicly available imagery of their repeated strategic blunders.  

      We would not know the extent of the losses of KC135 and E2 AWACs aircraft without this commercially available satellite imagery.  

      We need more imagery available from other „launching states“ in order to democratize information and keep our politicians honest about the damages their warmongering is self inflicting on American taxpayers.  

    12. DoneBeingSilent on

      Remember when MAGA/Republicans got upset that the Biden admin asked social media companies to watch for misinformation regarding COVID? How asking companies to censor falsehoods surrounding a legitimate public health concern that killed literally millions of Americans was a terrible thing?

      Now watch them jump through hoops to justify censoring info that isn’t even a danger to Americans.

    13. Zieprus_ on

      So when’s the ground invasion? Now they are side lining generals and Hegseth is trying to convince everyone this is a holly war it must be soon.

    Leave A Reply