Elon Musk

[Thumpalumpacus]

X may have standing in this case if there were agreements in place that were transferred to Space Karen when he took ownership. If the advertisers failed to uphold their contracts then there is clear standing.

That also depends on whether those contracts had severance clauses covering this sort of thing.

[Fake Messiah]

Elon Musk then vs now

[Pat Mustard]

Elon Musk is suing all the companies in the US because nobody wants to advertise on X.

Well, maybe I should sue every woman who refused to have sex with me.

Citizens United ruled that corporations are people, and per that ruling, enjoy First Amendment rights. One of those rights is the freedom of assembly, "[...] which can mean physically gathering with a group of people to picket or protest; or associating with one another in groups for economic, political or religious purposes." (https://www.annenbergclassroom.org/first...LsQAvD_BwE).

It follows that corporations cannot be forced to do business with other corporations by governmental decree, which is what this lawsuit seeks. Not only is their boycott quite legal, X's attempt to force them to advertise on its platform is an effort to seek an unconstitutional ruling.

Even without Citizens United this suit wouldn't make sense. The other companies made a valid business decision that advertising with Twitter after Galaxy Brain took it over would cost them business and thus stopped (especially after their ads started running alongside nazi posts).

But then again, on his very best day and if he was really, really and I mean right really lucky, Galaxy Brain would display the intelligence of a dead goldfish.

[Silver]

Elon Musk’s trans daughter launches scathing attack on tech billionaire after he misgenders her

Pink News

[Mr Greene]

[Fake Messiah]

Elon Musk appears to have a favorite judge: Federalist Society member Reed O’Connor in Fort Worth.

He’s presiding over two major Musk cases, even though none of the parties are based in Texas.

Records show O’Connor is a Tesla investor.

https://www.npr.org/2024/08/09/g-s1-1608...esla-stock

[Thumpalumpacus]

Elon Musk appears to have a favorite judge: Federalist Society member Reed O’Connor in Fort Worth.

He’s presiding over two major Musk cases, even though none of the parties are based in Texas.

Records show O’Connor is a Tesla investor.

https://www.npr.org/2024/08/09/g-s1-1608...esla-stock

No doubt he won't follow Thomas's example and recuse himself from a clear conflict of interest.

Hold on, I need to get some coffee to stay awake for that.

[Fake Messiah]

Elon Musk and the danger to democracy

With nearly 195mn followers, he is America’s most influential purveyor of disinformation. In total he has made 50 posts since January 1 that have been debunked by independent fact checkers, according to the Center for Countering Digital Hate. These were viewed 1.2bn times. They included a deep fake video that purportedly showed Kamala Harris calling herself “the ultimate diversity hire”.

In the last few days, he has commented repeatedly on the racist riots in Britain. He has forecast a coming UK civil war, condemned Britain’s prime minister Sir Keir Starmer for alleged bias towards non-whites and implied that Britain’s immigration policies were responsible for the murder of three girls last week in Southport. Posts by figures who were banned under Twitter’s previous ownership, such as Tommy Robinson, a fringe and four-times-jailed extreme right British activist, have gone viral.

On Thursday, Musk promoted another far right British figure — Ashlea Simon, co-founder of Britain First, also a white supremacist splinter group — who claimed Starmer planned to send British rioters to detention camps in the Falkland Islands. Simon’s post cited a fake Daily Telegraph story carrying that headline, a story the Telegraph quickly pointed out was invented. Musk deleted his tweet but only after it had made about 2mn impressions and with no apology for his error.

The difference between X and say the right-leaning GB News in the UK, or whatever platform the far-right radio host Alex Jones is using in America, is that the latter two are siloed channels. X claims to be the public square. In some respects, people are right to point out that “Twitter is not real life”. It isn’t. But when racist thugs falsely learn on X that refugees are child killers then gather to burn down refugee hostels — the site becomes all too real. At critical moments, X has become a key vector for potentially lethal untrue assertions. That its owner would endorse some of them ought to be a matter of public interest.

https://www.ft.com/content/bdd100a8-4817...a760aaebf1

[arewethereyet]

The company my husband works for started making some Tesla parts a few years ago. It's gone so well they recently fired 24 people with more on the chopping block.

[Pat Mustard]

Elon Musk appears to have a favorite judge: Federalist Society member Reed O’Connor in Fort Worth.

He’s presiding over two major Musk cases, even though none of the parties are based in Texas.

Records show O’Connor is a Tesla investor.

https://www.npr.org/2024/08/09/g-s1-1608...esla-stock

The problem for Galaxy Brain is that no judge at a lower level is going to go after the Six Roland Freiselers' favourite ruling, Citizens United.