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It still bothers me that Musk won that case. It wasn't like it was a random Tweet buried in the muck. It was during a high profile rescue and the defamation was
by bmitc 4y ago
It still bothers me that Musk won that case. It wasn't like it was a random Tweet buried in the muck. It was during a high profile rescue and the defamation was performed by a billionaire with millions of followers and sycophants. The power imbalance doesn't seem to have been taken into consideration.
- jjeaff 4y agoI think the only thing that saved musk is that he called him a "pedo guy" which is/was slang in south Africa in the 80s meaning just creepy. You usually can't be sued for general opinions. However, I seem to remember that Musk followed up the insult with some insinuation that he might know something about the guy which makes it worse. But I don't care to read up on the details at the moment.