I do wonder if Elon is aware that the world is generally tired of him and starting to take action from things like this story, to individual consumers avoiding his cars due to his name being attached to them? He might be in a fan boi bubble and thinks he is worshiped by all still. Hard to say.
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I don't think he believes he needs to care, and if his value wasn't tied up in Tesla I don't think he would. But maybe he has an exit plan from that too.
He absolutely has an echo chamber of bazingas singing his praises and showing off AI art portraying him as superhero, philosopher king, decent father, and benevolent captain of industry. Some are real, incl. Ian Miles “Ant Man” Cheong, the Krassenstein grifters, jilted ex-lover and spaghetti aficionado Grimes; but then lots of them are clearly bots, and some, I assume, are sockpuppet accounts run by the Boer himself.
I wish the US courts had to integrity to do the same
Funny that Brazil, a country known for its corruption, it calling musk out. Good for them, helps revitalize their image. Now if other countries could follow along.
Why do I have the feeling if this goes far enough that Musk won't be able to legally enter Brazil anymore, and therefore harm tesla and his other companies at the same time by not being able to perform business there anymore?
Elon Musk responds with great certainty in his voice: These accusations are completely baseless, I have NEVER obstructed fake news.
most notably with comments that his social media company X would cease to comply with the court’s orders to block certain accounts.
I mean, he can do that, but the flip side is that that may entail not doing business in Brazil.
Honestly, I think that it'd make more sense to just block content from being viewed on a per-jurisdiction basis and when someone can't see content, indicate why they're blocked, say that their state is mandating it.
It's not about the technicalities of implementing these rulings, it's about not wanting to do so, specifically because Elon agrees with the far right extremism being censored here.
How long until Grok shifts focus from fake stories about Iran to fake stories about Brazil?