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Satellite firm pauses imagery after revealing Iran's attacks on US bases
- onetokeoverthe 6mo ago[dead]
- kashunstva 6mo agoIf I’m reading the article correctly, imagery over Iran is available to clients; but that of U.S. assets is not. Seemingly this is explained by: > Planet also holds lucrative contracts selling overhead imagery to the US military and US government intelligence agencies. Nice company you got there. ‘Be a shame if you lost those U.S. government contracts.
- shablulman 6mo ago[flagged]
- wutwutwat 6mo agoThis is a private company so I'd imagine we can't label this as censorship, but are there any public funded image sats floating around us that expose unrestricted access to its entire flight path?
- ciaranmca 6mo agoI would say Sent2 but there is examples of recent censorship with that as well (https://hntrbrk.com/eu-satellites/ https://hntrbrk.com/eu-satellites/)
- Rebelgecko 6mo agoGOES does, although certainly not the same level of detail. I don't see anyone saying Landsat does censorship, but I haven't tried looking at spicy locations myself
- hulitu 6mo agoPropaganda is always good when _we_ do it. When the others are doing it, it is bad.