Starlink’s battlefield limits expose tech dependency, geopolitical weaponisation of digital infrastructure

Indigenous perspectives on land-based technology often emphasise relational ethics over extraction and control. For example, the Dene and Inuit in Canada have protested satellite disruptions to aurora-based navigation, framing such interventions as a form of digital colonialism. Starlink’s deployment in Ukraine could similarly be viewed through this lens—as a corporate land grab of the electromagnetic spectrum, where privatised infrastructure becomes a tool of state violence without Indigenous consent or benefit. The absence of such voices in this narrative erases the global precedent of tech-induced sovereignty conflicts.