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Specifically, Meta's response in the Semafor piece:

> “No one on the Threads engineering team is a former Twitter employee — that’s just not a thing,” the source said.

That's a pretty rock solid and straightforward defence. Unsurprising too since Meta has had well a publicized hiring freeze since early last year.

IANAL

> Spiro accused Meta of hiring dozens of former Twitter employees who “had and continue to have access to Twitter’s trade secrets and other highly confidential information.”

> He also alleged that Meta assigned those employees to develop “Meta’s copycat ‘Threads’ app with the specific intent that they use Twitter’s trade secrets and other intellectual property in order to accelerate the development of Meta’s competing app, in violation of both state and federal law as well as those employees’ ongoing obligations to Twitter.”

Isn’t the burden here on Twitter enormous? And given META’s size, a discovery would be enormous and require serious legal effort and money on Elon’s behalf, legal effort that would be better appropriated in dealing with legal issues in EU?

I wouldn’t be surprised if part of Zuck’s goal with the Spider-Man meme was to prod Elon directly into this lawsuit which will surely go nowhere, cost pocket change to Meta, and push Twitter that much closer to bankruptcy.

I don’t care much for either of these guys but you gotta love seeing a guy’s own toxic personality traits used against him.

Looks like Zuck’s jiu jitsu training is paying off after all!

When is the Elon/Zucc fight happening, anyways?

It's not. Musks mother and father showed their displeasure in the idea and now he won't do it. No, I'm not being facetious.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/elon-musk-mother...

That's not what the article you linked to says. It says

> Despite the concerns raised by Elon’s parents, plans to hold the fight at the Vegas Octagon are moving forward.

Wow you're right. I somehow skipped right over that. I even read it again to make sure I had the context right. I wasn't sure if his mom had literally said "don't do that!" or just inferred it in a tweet like she actually did ("I can't like this")..

Thanks

Right now in a lawsuit, apparently!

I think that the Elon/Zucc fight thing makes them both look ridiculous and childish and I've been enjoying that aspect of it (it doesn't matter even a little who wins, they both lose). This lawsuit strikes me the same way.

I'm looking forward to one (or both) getting - in order of preference: a black eye, knocked out teeth, KO'd, loss consciousness and/or loss of bowel control. The hero-worshipping of billionaires is harmful IMO, having that rolled back a little will do us all some good. Besides, seeing any billionaire hit so hard he shits himself live is great TV.

> I'm looking forward to one (or both) getting - in order of preference: a black eye, knocked out teeth, KO'd, loss consciousness and/or loss of bowel control.

That’s a pretty good list, but I’d add “meteor strike” to the end of it.

At the rate that Musk is destroying Twitter, all Meta has to do is drag the court case out a year or 2 and Twitter won't exist to see the end of it.

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