Elon Musk - news and discussion

[Proper Tidy]

Fuck off

Elon Musk found not guilty of defaming British cave explorer

Elon Musk found not guilty of defaming British cave explorer | Elon Musk | The Guardian

 

[two sheds]

Fuck off

Elon Musk found not guilty of defaming British cave explorer

Elon Musk found not guilty of defaming British cave explorer | Elon Musk | The Guardian

Yeh was just going to post You're Fucking Joking.

Does that mean we can call Elon Musk the pedo guy?

 

[Proper Tidy]

Yeh was just going to post You're Fucking Joking.

Does that mean we can call Elon Musk the pedo guy?

Bizarre isn't it. If it was just the pedo tweet then maybe, heat of moment and not to be taken seriously, but he reinforced it with multiple other tweets and emailed journalists alleging the diver fella had a child bride and was a rapist

 

[TheHoodedClaw]

Does that mean we can call Elon Musk the pedo guy?

I hope so after the tweet I just sent him

 

[tommers]

Fucking hell. That's just bizarre.

 

[two sheds]

Americans eh, different planet.

 

[TheHoodedClaw]

Americans eh, different planet.

Los Angeles juries and famous rich people, eh? Bloody hell.

 

[Crispy]

I thought he was crazy to not just settle for millions. Guilty at trial, I thought. But nope. Lunacy.

 

[Spymaster]

I thought Unsworth would piss it but Mrs Spy called it correctly days ago. For a defamation case to succeed they had to prove reputational damage but Unsworth was given all sorts of awards by the Thai government and an MBE here. Add that to the fact that the defence have convinced the jury that he Musk didn't mean he was literally a paedo but was just insulting him and it's an understandable verdict.

Annoying though.

 

[Saul Goodman]

I thought Unsworth would piss it but Mrs Spy called it correctly days ago. For a defamation case to succeed they had to prove reputational damage but Unsworth was given all sorts of awards by the Thai government and an MBE here. Add that to the fact that the defence have convinced the jury that he Musk didn't mean he was literally a paedo but was just insulting him and it's an understandable verdict.

Annoying though.

Isn't there something in defamation law that says the statement has to lower the defamed person in the eyes of right-thinking people? What right-thinking person is going to think Musk is anything but a prick, who spat his dummy out, threw his toys out of the pram and started hurling insults around.
I don't see how any right-thinking person could possibly think less of Unsworth based on anything Musk said.

 

[danny la rouge]

So is it alright for me to call Elon Musk a pedo guy? Or do I need to be a billionaire to do that?

 

[Spymaster]

So is it alright for me to call Elon Musk a pedo guy? Or do I need to be a billionaire to do that?

Give it a go on Twitter!

Be sure to delete the tweet and say sorry and you should be fine.

 

[D'wards]

I wonder if they argued that the guy had "started it" by telling Musk to shove the submarine up his arse in the first place?

Alongside the Jdart defence it could be the "classic bantz" defence

 

[weltweit]

I wonder if they argued that the guy had "started it" by telling Musk to shove the submarine up his arse in the first place?
..

I thought it was exactly that, an exchange of insults which didn't defame either of them.

 

[planetgeli]

So is it alright for me to call Elon Musk a pedo guy? Or do I need to be a billionaire to do that?

He's a scum bag. By which I don't mean he's a bag of scum, it's just a general insult in 'my country'.

 

[D'wards]

I can believe it can be successfully argued that no one thought Unsworth was a paedophile off the back of it.
Most people's take was simply that Musk was a nob

 

[Spymaster]

I can believe it can be successfully argued that no one thought Unsworth was a paedophile off the back of it.
Most people's take was simply that Musk was a nob

Exactly.

 

[Winot]

A guy from Unsworth’s UK legal team was interviewed on the Today program this morning on R4. In the US, jury members can be interviewed after the trial. An interview with one of them revealed that they had potentially made a legal mistake in their analysis of the case. The lawyer suggested that there may be a possibility of a retrial.

 

[danny la rouge]

He's a scum bag. By which I don't mean he's a bag of scum, it's just a general insult in 'my country'.

He fucks children. I don’t mean literally. But he does metaphorically fuck us all over. The cunt.

 

[D'wards]

I wonder if the greed of Unsworth's claim alienated the jury somewhat.
I mean, $190m - it's a bit over the top

 

[Spymaster]

I wonder if the greed of Unsworth's claim alienated the jury somewhat.
I mean, $190m - it's a bit over the top

If he'd gone for £5mio, Musk would probably have settled. He's probably spent 2 million on lawyers.

 

[butchersapron]

Yeh was just going to post You're Fucking Joking.

Does that mean we can call Elon Musk the pedo guy?

No, you can call the other bloke it.

 

[two sheds]

True, but I anyway wouldn't fancy the court case if either of them decided to sue me.

 

[MickiQ]

So is it alright for me to call Elon Musk a pedo guy? Or do I need to be a billionaire to do that?

Yes

 

[UnderOpenSky]

Crashes his new truck. Truck 1 Bollard 0.

Elon Musk crashes brand new Tesla Cybertruck into bollard after night out

 

[Yossarian]

Was the bollard OK?

 

[MrCurry]

Was the bollard OK?

It was initially offended because Elon called it “Pedo Bollard”, but after he explained it was just a expression of annoyance and not a statement of fact, all was ok again.

 

[Chilli.s]

Did I read that right, Musk tried to fuck himself with a bollard in the back of a truck?

 

[FridgeMagnet]

How old was this bollard?

 

[Marty1]

I wonder if the greed of Unsworth's claim alienated the jury somewhat.
I mean, $190m - it's a bit over the top

Probably advised by his (greedy) lawyers who would have taken a percentage of a successful outcome payout.

Go big or go home - he went home.