Wow, okay. This is still an incredibly bizarre point:
>Some cultures have the death penalty for sodomy whereas the acceptance of critique is celebrated as wise in most cultures
Anyway, he actually said Elon Musk to "stick the submarine where it hurts" and called it a PR stunt. Elon then responds with this tweet, which I think is relatively appropriate:
And a series of other tweets doubling down on the sentiment. This is insane and depraved. You can argue that this is all inflamed by the media, outrage culture , etc, but at the end of the day, the CEO of a hugely popular tech company took to twitter (where he has 23m followers) to spread vile and baseless accusations about someone.
He made these tweets originally and publicly in JULY. It was only recently (and after apologizing) that he REPEATED the accusations to Buzzfeed news. And the buzzfeed reporter also preempts your accusations that the emails were leaked improperly ("He prefaced the email with "off the record" though I did not agree to that condition. Off the record is a two-party agreement.")
> Both of these people tried to save the lives of children
Yah, sure. But one of them also took to their social media and their millions of followers to accuse the other of being a pedophile, and then repeated the accusation, and then apologized, and then REPEATED the accusation again months later. With no proof. And so Musk can both be someone who tried to save the lives of children and a piece of garbage who is prone to emotional outbursts that can do real damage to real people.
Yeah, bad way to make my point. I know that there is very clear adversarial search for and an adversarial amplification and adversarial provocation of all Elon Musk's flaws. This amplification involves a game of telephone in which their is mounting outrage which turns 'shove it where it hurts' into 'dared to critique the proposed engineering solution'. I'm trying to introduce reality again in the hope of stopping the mob mentality death threats toward Unsworth and the harming of the mission of electrification of transport. People are intentionally trying to help feed this system, to see what happens [1]. I've seen enough of what happens to know this is a bad idea.
Pretty sure the right thing to do is let the conversation die. Due process will bring much more justice than social media amplification.
I still don't see how that really applies. I agree that Musk is subject to a lot of scrutiny, and a lot of negative coverage in general. But in this case, he is absolutely in the wrong, and what he did and continues to do is despicable. This wasn't a case of the media taking his statements out of context or misrepresenting his views, and it's disingenuous to try and roll this event into the category of 'unfair media sensationalism'.
I think you are trying too hard to defend Musk. There is (to me) an immeasurable difference between "shove it up your ass" (which is telling Musk to do something), and "you are a paedophile" (which is saying the diver is a something, for which in almost every country in the world you would go to prison for). He then repeated the accusation, repeatedly, saying he is sure it is true.
The guy is now suing Musk, which really is (in my opinion) his only choice, as otherwise many people might assume the accusation is true (as Musk is so sure, and even asked why he wasn't being sued as a response)
> There is (to me) an immeasurable difference between "shove it up your ass" (which is telling Musk to do something), and "you are a paedophile" (which is saying the diver is a something, for which in almost every country in the world you would go to prison for). He then repeated the accusation, repeatedly, saying he is sure it is true.
> The guy is now suing Musk, which really is (in my opinion) his only choice, as otherwise many people might assume the accusation is true (as Musk is so sure, and even asked why he wasn't being sued as a response)
>Some cultures have the death penalty for sodomy whereas the acceptance of critique is celebrated as wise in most cultures
Anyway, he actually said Elon Musk to "stick the submarine where it hurts" and called it a PR stunt. Elon then responds with this tweet, which I think is relatively appropriate:
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1016960469737693184
Elon then also made this statement:
https://twitter.com/GossiTheDog/status/1018513062855364608
And a series of other tweets doubling down on the sentiment. This is insane and depraved. You can argue that this is all inflamed by the media, outrage culture , etc, but at the end of the day, the CEO of a hugely popular tech company took to twitter (where he has 23m followers) to spread vile and baseless accusations about someone.
He made these tweets originally and publicly in JULY. It was only recently (and after apologizing) that he REPEATED the accusations to Buzzfeed news. And the buzzfeed reporter also preempts your accusations that the emails were leaked improperly ("He prefaced the email with "off the record" though I did not agree to that condition. Off the record is a two-party agreement.")
> Both of these people tried to save the lives of children
Yah, sure. But one of them also took to their social media and their millions of followers to accuse the other of being a pedophile, and then repeated the accusation, and then apologized, and then REPEATED the accusation again months later. With no proof. And so Musk can both be someone who tried to save the lives of children and a piece of garbage who is prone to emotional outbursts that can do real damage to real people.