It's pretty simple. Musk was hounded by short sellers who bet billions against Tesla and then spread patently false information about the company's activities a

It's pretty simple. Musk was hounded by short sellers who bet billions against Tesla and then spread patently false information about the company's activities and prospects[1]. Musk has one of those asymmetric senses of fairness (like the one that drove Gates to tears during Microsoft's anti-trust trials) that lost all faith in the SEC as it stood by and did nothing about what he felt was clearly illegal behavior. In his mind, he was treated 'super unfairly' by bullies while the guardians stood by and did nothing. He really dislikes them for that. Is his open disrespect a mature response? No. It's idealistic if not naive and he could be about to find out that the SEC does have teeth. [0] https://www.theregister.co.uk/2000/10/25/inside_the_ms_trial_part_2/ https://www.theregister.co.uk/2000/10/25/inside_the_ms_trial... (sorry, couldn't find a better source) [1] ? "The SEC similarly should be leading the charge against purveyors of short-and-distort schemes. Unfortunately, the commission inexplicably has been reluctant to do so.Just like a pump-and-dump, a short-and-distort scheme violates the Securities Exchange Act antifraud provisions, as well as SEC Rule 10b-5. In fact, it has brought hardly any enforcement actions targeting this conduct."