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I do give him credit for those things, but the guy is one of the most powerful people in the world and uses that power to bully. He keeps using his position of
by paulgb 4y ago
I do give him credit for those things, but the guy is one of the most powerful people in the world and uses that power to bully. He keeps using his position of power to punch down at people who usually don’t deserve it. It’s petty and pathetic.
For example, twitter’s former head of trust and safety had to leave his home recently because Musk told his fawning followers that he was a pedophile. It’s not even the first time Musk has called someone a pedophile unfounded.
- tomcam 4y ago> For example, twitter’s former head of trust and safety had to leave his home recently because Musk told his fawning followers that he was a pedophile. Uh no. He simply posted a screenshot from the guy’s thesis.
- foldr 4y agoHe also misrepresented what the thesis was saying in the same tweet, deliberately playing into homophobic tropes associating gay people with pedophilia.
- vibrio 4y agoIronically, digging up out-of-context history to disparage someone sounds like a “cancel culture” tactic.
- Operative0198 4y agoI thought cancel culture was a positive thing.
- vibrio 4y agoWhat you and I think are not really important in this conversation. Elon believes that the Woke Mind Virus is an existential threat to mankind. Perhaps he has been infected.
- Operative0198 4y agoMaybe he's infected. But he's certainly not entirely wrong on that claim. There's people academically smarter than him that share the same belief.
- vibrio 4y agoIs he not entirely wrong in warning “Cancel culture is bad” or not entirely wrong in Canceling someone?
- Operative0198 4y agoWhatever you said he believes in on your previous comment.
- tomcam 4y agoWhat's out of context?
- paulgb 4y agoDon’t you see the irony here, though? When a very powerful man with a large following “just posts a screenshot”, he is supposed to be unaccountable for the actions his followers take, even if his additional context dog-whistles to his fans that the guy is a pedo. When a relative nobody “just posts already-public information about a physical object”, suddenly that’s not just worthy of a ban, but of a nuisance lawsuit. https://www.vice.com/amp/en/article/dy79wm/elon-musk-yoel-roth-threats https://www.vice.com/amp/en/article/dy79wm/elon-musk-yoel-ro...
- pibechorro 4y agoNo one is accountable for the actions of others if they where not explicitly directed.
- paulgb 4y agoAnd yet Musk is suing the @elonjet guy because someone attacked his car. See what I mean by the irony? https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1603190155107794944?s=20&t=iLmZP1fsVYCbdracOudiwQ https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1603190155107794944?s=20...
- hn_throwaway_99 4y ago> Uh no. He simply posted a screenshot from the guy’s thesis. That is BS. Musk posted it with this false comment, which he knew would enrage his followers (and it did, I saw tons of "all pedophiles deserve to die" about Roth after this): > Looks like Yoel is arguing in favor of children being able to access adult Internet services in his PhD thesis. Which is, unsurprisingly, the exact opposite of what Roth was arguing for. Here is what the DailyMail (not exactly a liberal rag) said about Roth's thesis: > Roth wrote that, as underage youngsters use the app anyway, an age-appropriate version should be created to offer help to LGBT youth In other words, he specifically wanted to separate kids from an app that was intended for adults. Now, people can definitely debate in good faith whether Roth's argument is a good idea or not - I think it's most definitely not. But it's not because of the absolutely false trope that Roth wants to make kids available to adults, which is basically what Musk has deliberately whipped up his followers into a frenzy about.