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Satellite firm pauses imagery after revealing Iran's attacks on US bases (arstechnica.com)
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Planet Labs, one of the world’s leading commercial satellite imaging companies, said Friday it is placing a hold on releasing imagery of some parts of the Middle East as a regional war enters its second week.

Planet wants to prevent "adversarial actors" from using images for "Battle Damage Assessment" purposes.

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[–] kescusay@lemmy.world 75 points 3 hours ago (3 children)

To me this translates to, "America's military is being led incompetently and we don't want anyone to see the real damage being done to it."

Jesus fucking Christ, this is the stupidest possible way to start WWIII.

[–] avg@lemmy.zip 26 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

To be fair, wars have never started smartly, there is usually stupidity involved.

[–] aquovie@lemmy.cafe 13 points 1 hour ago

There are lots of ways to start a war but they all end the same: everyone sitting down to discuss peace. For some reason, no one thinks to try discussing peace first.

[–] sbv@sh.itjust.works 14 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Satellite services are pretty amenable to hiding sensitive parts of the world: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_satellite_map_images_with_missing_or_unclear_data?wprov=sfla1

It seems totally on-brand for the US government to request that bits of the war zone be hidden, and it's entirely on brand for satellite companies to hide them.

[–] CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah it's normal to ask for a warzone - but this isn't a war of course.

[–] NeilNuggetstrong@lemmy.world 9 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

The US government: "It's just a special military operation, absolutely not a war. Hmmm? Department of War, no no it's always been Department of Defense".

Meanwhile, Trump: "The war..."

[–] sbv@sh.itjust.works 2 points 59 minutes ago

Are they really using the same terminology as Putin?

[–] CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Congress voted it's not war, doesn't require war powers, so yeah anyone or private business treating this as a warzone is in the wrong. Except now after they decided that, we're still seeing wartime excuses for gop behavior. Schrodinger's conflict starting world war epstein, staying on brand for 2026.

[–] Akh@lemmy.world 7 points 2 hours ago

Yep, it is funny how many images of this shitshow are not showing up on like reddit. Full on censorship