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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 53 points 2 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 17 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

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

[–] aquovie@lemmy.cafe 6 points 38 minutes 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 6 points 1 hour 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 2 points 57 minutes ago (1 children)

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

[–] NeilNuggetstrong@lemmy.world 2 points 51 minutes ago (1 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..."

[–] CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 1 points 31 minutes ago* (last edited 31 minutes 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 6 points 1 hour ago

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

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 13 points 1 hour ago

“Oops, the observable truth! Our bad.”

[–] LoafedBurrito@lemmy.world 1 points 9 minutes ago

Probably because the New York times article that came out Thursday proved they bombed the school on purpose and refused to do more research and intelligence to confirm their targets.

The administration hates when evidence of their crimes come out, so they most likely threatened every GPS company they could to stop updated images.