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Elon Musk apologises to Thai cave diver for Twitter attack
- sidcool 8y agoSanity prevails. I was sure Elon's ego was hurt in this case. His machines are like his babies and he could not handle criticism.
- smithmayowa 8y agoYeah stunning to see the proverbial elon ego take a back seat in this case, that dude is just too passionate about his ideas to admit fault when wrong in most cases, which I was half as passionate about my ideas.
- danso 8y agoIn his apology, Musk links to a "well-written" (but basically unsourced) Quora answer [0] that contains among other things, a "(very) limited defense" of why Musk's "pedophile accusation wasn’t quite random." Musk's first tweet also asserts that "Unsworth said several untruths" as context for why Musk got angry. I'm not Unsworth so I don't know how that apology should be taken by him personally. But if Unsworth does try to sue for defamation, Musk's tweet didn't seem to be helpful legally. It was nearly 3 days before he made the apology (it took 2 days from the first to the last boy to be rescued). He basically calls Unsworth a liar. And he leaves room for people to wonder that Unsworth still might be a pedophile, because hey, according to the Quora article Musk endorses, "Thailand has a reputation for sex tourism in general". A better apology would have been to not delegate his explanation to someone's Quora essay. People should only care about what Musk himself uses as justification. [0] https://www.quora.com/Whats-the-full-story-behind-Elon-Musks-involvement-with-the-Thai-cave-rescue-effort https://www.quora.com/Whats-the-full-story-behind-Elon-Musks...