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His behavior is completely fine. Just because you don't want to hear news about him doesn't make his behavior wrong. He's saying that Twitter isn't providing va

His behavior is completely fine. Just because you don't want to hear news about him doesn't make his behavior wrong. He's saying that Twitter isn't providing valid information and is blocking him from having access to information he has a right to have access to.

dekhn 4y ago
That's an exceptionally naive analysis of the situation. Nobody makes an agreement to buy a multibillion dollar company and waives due diligence, then makes a stink afterwards. He's not some crusading knight in armor protecting the world from twitter's bots. His behavior (across a wide range of things) is not fine. Which is a real shame because the core of his business activities right now is great, and his behavior constantly distracts from that.
- mlindner 4y ago
  Elon is well known to leap before checking everything on the other side. That's well within the norm of his behavior. For the record, I'd actually prefer if he didn't buy Twitter as I care about him spending that time on SpaceX instead. Getting us to Mars is a much bigger problem than fixing one minor social media platform. Most of the "behavior" that is reported about him is exaggerated, taken out of context, or outright lies. So no, in general I don't have huge issues with his current behavior. It's a lot better than it was back during the time period when Tesla was having a lot of financial issues and he was an emotional wreck.
- dgfitz 4y ago
  > His behavior (across a wide range of things) is not fine. Not fine, or you just disagree with? Two very different things.
  - dekhn 4y ago
    Both. I mean, I totally love that he's obsessed with Culture novels and named his money team "Excession". But I think his behavior is antisocial- rich person acting almost entirely from ego.
    - ceejayoz 4y ago
      It's rather fascinating to me that Musk entirely missed the point of the Culture novels. Banks was a socialist, writing about a socialist utopia that literally goes in to intervene and overthrow billionaire oligarchs like Veppers in Surface Detail. Veppers is even trying to wiggle out of a contract he doesn't want; it's a central plot point!
      - dekhn 4y ago
        I didn't particularly like Surface Detail. But, anyway: I think the Culture is post-scarcity, computer-managed, not socialist. Socialist systems deal with scarcity. If people in the culture truly wanted to play with money, there would always have been some station or ship they could go to and play with money.
        ceejayoz 4y ago
        Post-scarcity socialism, luxury fully-automated space communism; whatever you call it, it's not hyper-capitalism.
ctvo 4y ago
> He's saying that Twitter isn't providing valid information and is blocking him from having access to information he has a right to have access to. He should have asked for this prior to agreeing to buy the company. This has veered into legal posturing by his legal team. The letter sent and the on the record with the SEC filing are for future litigation purposes. Many of us expected it would when the market turned and the deal was obviously overvalued. Elon timed the deal incorrectly. Unlikely many of us who would have to live with our poor business decisions, he's using the tools available to someone of his wealth to litigate his way out of this entirely or to a better price. It's tiring because it was expected. This wasn't 5D chess.

dekhn 4y ago

That's an exceptionally naive analysis of the situation. Nobody makes an agreement to buy a multibillion dollar company and waives due diligence, then makes a stink afterwards. He's not some crusading knight in armor protecting the world from twitter's bots. His behavior (across a wide range of things) is not fine. Which is a real shame because the core of his business activities right now is great, and his behavior constantly distracts from that.

mlindner 4y ago
Elon is well known to leap before checking everything on the other side. That's well within the norm of his behavior. For the record, I'd actually prefer if he didn't buy Twitter as I care about him spending that time on SpaceX instead. Getting us to Mars is a much bigger problem than fixing one minor social media platform. Most of the "behavior" that is reported about him is exaggerated, taken out of context, or outright lies. So no, in general I don't have huge issues with his current behavior. It's a lot better than it was back during the time period when Tesla was having a lot of financial issues and he was an emotional wreck.
dgfitz 4y ago
> His behavior (across a wide range of things) is not fine. Not fine, or you just disagree with? Two very different things.
- dekhn 4y ago
  Both. I mean, I totally love that he's obsessed with Culture novels and named his money team "Excession". But I think his behavior is antisocial- rich person acting almost entirely from ego.
  - ceejayoz 4y ago
    It's rather fascinating to me that Musk entirely missed the point of the Culture novels. Banks was a socialist, writing about a socialist utopia that literally goes in to intervene and overthrow billionaire oligarchs like Veppers in Surface Detail. Veppers is even trying to wiggle out of a contract he doesn't want; it's a central plot point!
    - dekhn 4y ago
      I didn't particularly like Surface Detail. But, anyway: I think the Culture is post-scarcity, computer-managed, not socialist. Socialist systems deal with scarcity. If people in the culture truly wanted to play with money, there would always have been some station or ship they could go to and play with money.
      - ceejayoz 4y ago
        Post-scarcity socialism, luxury fully-automated space communism; whatever you call it, it's not hyper-capitalism.

ctvo 4y ago

> He's saying that Twitter isn't providing valid information and is blocking him from having access to information he has a right to have access to. He should have asked for this prior to agreeing to buy the company. This has veered into legal posturing by his legal team. The letter sent and the on the record with the SEC filing are for future litigation purposes. Many of us expected it would when the market turned and the deal was obviously overvalued. Elon timed the deal incorrectly. Unlikely many of us who would have to live with our poor business decisions, he's using the tools available to someone of his wealth to litigate his way out of this entirely or to a better price. It's tiring because it was expected. This wasn't 5D chess.