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The fact that you’ve inserted “political” into a fact-based happened-or-didn’t situation says more about you, and your willingness to buy into people’s conspiracy theories, than anything about the situation.

SpaceX is operating in a highly regulated industry and shoving crap into space, which affects every person on Earth for the next several decades. They are way more accountable to society than almost every “multinational” you can think of.

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The "political" aspect of the situation is that a newspaper is reporting what an anonymous person says her friend told her in confidence years ago without any real corroborating evidence. If the media organization were not motivated by political animus they would not run such a flimsy story. Or, I don't know, maybe they would, but that's how I interpret "political".

A friend of the employee made unsubstantiated claims right when Elon was doing his Twitter thing, and threatening the stranglehold of establishment lefts information control.

Yes, it’s political.

Why didn’t the employee go to the police? Why didn’t her friend reveal this information years ago.

Your point is ridiculously naive.

> Why didn’t the employee go to the police?

You're calling someone naive, while also asking why an employee didn't go to the cops with an accusation of sexual harrassment against their employer who is the richest man in the world?

Because if she did, she'd have a paper trail, and some leg to actually stand on when making accusations right in the midst of a political shitshow.

The victim isn't the one out there making these accusations. To be honest I imagine she just wants to live her life without worrying about being harrassed further by a bunch of Elon Musk fans demanding to see a paper trail or asking why she didn't go to the police

We all know what would actually happen in this situation. A bunch of angry Musk fans would claim that it's made up, the papers are fake, that they're a political hitjob etc followed by self-made investigators harassing her at every step. Or Musk would just hire another detective to follow her around and call her a pedophile as he seems to do whenever someone gets visible enough.

There is no level of evidence that would meet standards, and the reason why this became a 'political shitshow' was because Musk caught wind of the story ahead of time and as powerful people often do, tried to spin it into an us-vs-them story.

To be fair, I don't think most people would go to the police for sexual harassment. It's handled as a civil offense unless it rises to the level of sexual assault and becomes criminal.

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