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Wow, why did Musk fold so easily? He’s already taken so many other things to litigation, how did the City get this one by him?
by choppaface 3y ago
Wow, why did Musk fold so easily? He’s already taken so many other things to litigation, how did the City get this one by him?
- bicx 3y agoProbably knew he’d have to take it down and took the opportunity for a publicity stunt.
- rsynnott 3y agoI assume some PR person managed to convince him that going to court to try to assert the right to flash lights into random peoples' homes was a bad look, even by his standards.
- choppaface 3y agohmmm and yet today he threatened to sue the non-profit Center for Countering Digital Hate. after also re-instating kanye west this weekend despite west's anti-semetic posts. also after he re-instated an account that posted blatant CSAM ... https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/31/technology/twitter-x-center-for-countering-digital-hate.html https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/31/technology/twitter-x-cent... Also officially Twitter has no PR department and responds to reporters with poop emoji. So all this behavior indicates Musk would be more willing to litigate the removal of his sign versus any sort of compliance.
- anonymousab 3y agoOr maybe a general safety thing. It's hard to spin "your giant metal X blew off the roof and crushed a family". At least with autopilot they always get to say "the software kinda malfunctioned and we blame the driver anyways."
- ModernMech 3y agoIn the latter case, a throng of simps will come to his defense on social media to claim that the family was a necessary sacrifice to reach the techno utopia Musk envisions. Just think of all the families in the future Musk promises he will save! Why, that’s like infinity families, let the man do whatever he wants!