"The American punditocracy has obsessed over Musk’s recent deal to purchase Twitter, which might ruin free speech as we know it, or, modestly alter a social-media platform most Americans don’t even use. Meanwhile, people have been dying in Ukraine—or not dying—because of Musk’s effort to help the underdog Ukrainians with secure communications.

"On Feb. 26, two days after the Russian invasion began, a top Ukrainian official asked Elon Musk on Twitter to activate SpaceX’s Starlink service in Ukraine. Starlink is a satellite-based high-speed internet service offered by SpaceX, where Musk is CEO, for people who don’t have access to wired internet. Airlines may adopt it for in-flight Wi-Fi. SpaceX rockets have so far deployed about 2,400 Starlink satellites, with the goal of ultimately fielding 42,000 satellites that can provide internet service in most inhabited parts of the world."