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> this could be a relatively cheap way of mortally wounding Twitter Interesting idea, albeit very high risk, however what's the motivation? Say he's right, sur

> this could be a relatively cheap way of mortally wounding Twitter Interesting idea, albeit very high risk, however what's the motivation? Say he's right, sure he walks away with $1B minus his legal fees. But if he looses, he own Twitter... but wanted to "mortally wound" it. Not sure he needs to do something high risk like this for the potential of $1B, and based on how much he uses Twitter I'm not sure he wants to take it down.

jmyeet 4y ago
To be clear, I'm not even suggesting this is what Musk is doing. It's just an interesting thought I had about what someone could do. But as for motivation for someone doing this, people have egos and when they have this much money, it essentially costs them nothing to exact revenge for no other reason than a bruised ego. Musk in parituclar is notoriously thin-skinned. Remember when those boys in Thailand were being rescued from a cave following a flooding? Musk offered a submarine. One of the rescuers said something dismissive about it. Musk responded by calling him a "pedo guy" and then won the defemation suit by lying and saying it was South African slang, not an unfounded allegation the guy was a pedophile [1]. [1]: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-50695593 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-50695593
- yanbianhobo 4y ago
  Where does the article support your claim that he was lying?
  - outworlder 4y ago
    That article doesn't. However, https://theoutline.com/post/7951/elon-musk-pedo-guy-south-africa https://theoutline.com/post/7951/elon-musk-pedo-guy-south-af... https://www.businessinsider.co.za/elon-musk-pedo-guy-really-was-an-insult-in-south-africa-but-not-common-2019-9 https://www.businessinsider.co.za/elon-musk-pedo-guy-really-... https://slate.com/technology/2019/12/elon-musk-trial-pedo-guy-diver-lawsuit.html https://slate.com/technology/2019/12/elon-musk-trial-pedo-gu... https://www.iol.co.za/saturday-star/news/elon-musks-pedo-guy-insult-leaves-sa-most-bemused-38798885 https://www.iol.co.za/saturday-star/news/elon-musks-pedo-guy... Worth noting that, even if it was common 'slang', the meaning hasn't changed one bit from what we attribute to those words today.
    - jimmygrapes 4y ago
      I was always under the impression that Elon was making a (poor?) joke about the sex tourism stereotype of bald Britons living in and around Thailand specifically.
fijiaarone 4y ago
Not every cunning idea has to be thought up in advance, and not every aspect of it needs to be devised by one person. Perhaps some of Musk’s advisors dreamed up this strategy on realizing the dangers of “plan A” or even after the decision to back out was made.

jmyeet 4y ago

To be clear, I'm not even suggesting this is what Musk is doing. It's just an interesting thought I had about what someone could do. But as for motivation for someone doing this, people have egos and when they have this much money, it essentially costs them nothing to exact revenge for no other reason than a bruised ego. Musk in parituclar is notoriously thin-skinned. Remember when those boys in Thailand were being rescued from a cave following a flooding? Musk offered a submarine. One of the rescuers said something dismissive about it. Musk responded by calling him a "pedo guy" and then won the defemation suit by lying and saying it was South African slang, not an unfounded allegation the guy was a pedophile [1]. [1]: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-50695593 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-50695593

yanbianhobo 4y ago
Where does the article support your claim that he was lying?
- outworlder 4y ago
  That article doesn't. However, https://theoutline.com/post/7951/elon-musk-pedo-guy-south-africa https://theoutline.com/post/7951/elon-musk-pedo-guy-south-af... https://www.businessinsider.co.za/elon-musk-pedo-guy-really-was-an-insult-in-south-africa-but-not-common-2019-9 https://www.businessinsider.co.za/elon-musk-pedo-guy-really-... https://slate.com/technology/2019/12/elon-musk-trial-pedo-guy-diver-lawsuit.html https://slate.com/technology/2019/12/elon-musk-trial-pedo-gu... https://www.iol.co.za/saturday-star/news/elon-musks-pedo-guy-insult-leaves-sa-most-bemused-38798885 https://www.iol.co.za/saturday-star/news/elon-musks-pedo-guy... Worth noting that, even if it was common 'slang', the meaning hasn't changed one bit from what we attribute to those words today.
  - jimmygrapes 4y ago
    I was always under the impression that Elon was making a (poor?) joke about the sex tourism stereotype of bald Britons living in and around Thailand specifically.

fijiaarone 4y ago

Not every cunning idea has to be thought up in advance, and not every aspect of it needs to be devised by one person. Perhaps some of Musk’s advisors dreamed up this strategy on realizing the dangers of “plan A” or even after the decision to back out was made.