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Is the Twitter user extorting Musk?

• vntok 4y ago
  Indeed. > “I go like, Oh my gosh, Elon Musk just DM’d me: ‘Can you take this down? It’s a security risk,’” Mr. Sweeney said. “Then he offered me $5,000 to take it down and help him make it slightly harder for ‘crazy people to track me.’” [...] > Mr. Sweeney made a counteroffer to Mr. Musk, according to the screenshots of the exchange, saying that he would abandon the account if Mr. Musk upped the ante to $50,000. He said that he would also accept a Tesla Model 3, an electric car that costs more than $38,000, adding that he was joking. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/03/technology/elon-musk-jet-tracking.html https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/03/technology/elon-musk-jet-...
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  • mcphage 4y ago
    That's not what extortion is. (Or stalking, for that matter).
  • itsoktocry 4y ago
    >Indeed. He received an offer to shut it down, then countered the offer. Then said he was joking. You're not a lawyer, by chance?