The site is run by some activist, not even politically related to the current government.It was something.
Legal CYA is another option. Starlink in the non-Pentagon acquired kinds was always normal civilian one with terms of service that, on the fact of it, on the face of it forbid weaponized use.The Ukrainian government and their boosters have treated Elon like a POS for over a year when they should've said 'thank you for your support at the time of greatest need i.e. the first days' but instead we get stuff just like what I first responded to. Elon doesn't owe Ukraine jack shit and it's not a credit to the Kyiv government's collective character in constantly inciting this because again, he's not Ukrainian, he took no oaths to Ukraine and it's not like the US DoD didn't purchase unlimited Starlink for Ukraine anyway and which Starlink did sell to the DoD which means Elon doesn't have to worry about the Realpolitik that should be the responsibility of NATO and the animatronics and taxidermists that move Hairsniffer around.
Or maybe this is some giant Kabuki theater to keep Putin from waxing Elon but that goes against Occam's Razor.
From legal perspective, it is a good idea for Musk to stick to enforcing it as far as he knows of it (which is not easy to know), because the way things look, only more countries will be getting more interested in the Starlink+drone setup in more creative ways, and he knows that suddenly this can, completely outside of his control, put him in some nasty, war and politics related legal case in US or other courts, even international shitlib one, just because some politician decides that he's a convenient, loosely related to the situation actor that can be thrown under the bus instead of someone important.
Any major power knows that he's worth organizing influence ops as an individual, which he may have fell for at least a couple times, and that probably lead to him having some backroom talks that have lead to him eagerly giving up operational control over the Ukraine related stuff to DoD, takes a lot of pressuring, whining, convincing, bribing and threatening from several parties out of his hair.