EU lawmaker urges Europe to stop using US tech, saying Starlink cutoff led to deaths

A European Union lawmaker is warning about the risks of relying on Starlink and calling on Europe to stop using US technology. According to the Politico Europe headline, the lawmaker says a cutoff of the Starlink service led to deaths. Starlink is a satellite internet service.

The source material available contains only the headline and not the article text. The lawmaker's name and party, as well as when and where the service was cut off and under what circumstances people died, are therefore unknown. Those details are left out so as not to give an inaccurate picture.

The headline suggests that the debate over Europe's dependence on US technology companies also touches on safety issues. Once the full source text is available, this report can be expanded with concrete facts and the lawmaker's arguments.