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I mean, there's his Media Matters lawsuit for one: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/nov/18/elon-musk...

It's not a lawsuit until he files it.

It's just random words from the Twitter king for now. I think that it will be a difficult case and that the Lawyers will shy away from trying to go through with that insanity.

Legal threats from a non-lawyer have very, very low risk. People only pay attention when an actual lawyer is involved.

Here's the now filed lawsuit:

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24172809-x-v-media-m...

When you can provide a court and a docket number for that lawsuit, we can treat it a real thing that exists rather than empty threat that doesn't because it would have no merit and probably also subject Musk to penalties under the applicable anti-SLAPP laws.

He filed it in Texas, possibly to avoid anti-SLAPP laws.

It doesn't look like The "thermonuclear lawsuit" he was going to launch the "split second court opens", has happened.

/S/

I am shocked, shocked I say. Musk usually seems so cool headed and not prone to constantly spewing hyperbole and bullshit.

Lawsuit here https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24172809-x-v-media-m...

Well shut my mouth, I thought it was a bluff.

Thanks for the link.

ps. this isn't sarcasm.

What lawsuit? All I see is a scared CEO flapping his lips about using the legal system to chill the free speech of a group he does not like for calling out his Naziesque rhetoric. It is now well past "The split second court opens on Monday," and yet, no lawsuit. It's almost like he doesn't actually have a case.

Here's the lawsuit:

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24172809-x-v-media-m...

Ah yes, hours after the comment and much later than the moment the courts open.

This reads like a petulant press release and nor an actual legal document. It feels like they even stipulate that Media Matters was right and they did display ads next to Nazi propaganda, but Musk is getting huffy about the technique MM used to expose this flaw in their system.

Side note: how long did it take you to replay to just about every thread in this article with a link to Musk's temper tantrum?

And he has a very strong case it seems.

On what grounds?

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