Musk offers to pay legal bills of people ‘unfairly treated’ for posting on platform

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• Motavader@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Perhaps he’s forgotten that free speech means you’re free to say whatever you want, but you’re not free from the repercussions. Especially in all the “at will” employee states.

  This is so stupid.

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  • mindbleach@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    “At will” is pure conservative bullshit, right down to the name being a lie that makes “fired for illegal reasons but wink wink doesn’t count” harmful to even discuss.

    No relation to Musk’s stupidity. Just picking a nit.

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    • Motavader@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      That’s exactly what I mean. Employees in At Will states can legally be fired for anything short of violations of protected classes, so I’m not sure how he’s expecting to win here.

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  • Lord_McAlister@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    He knows exactly what free speech means. But now he releases he may be able to make more money if people didn’t have it.

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  • 007v2@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Forgot? He never knew.

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• Veedem@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  He’ll never actually do it. He simply wants to encourage more people to say outrageous things so engagement levels increase as everyone does dumb shit.

  Good luck to anyone who falls for this.

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  • Got_Bent@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    When I look at the current state of the internet, I pine for the simpler days of the nineties when a/s/l and stormfront.org look downright warm and fuzzy in comparison. That was just weird individuals being weird. Now it’s institutionalized across the entire Internet.

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  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I suspect he may have read this article and taken it to heart:

    “They need us. We don’t need them:” The fall of Twitter is making the trolls and grifters desperate

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  • LeadSoldier@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    He’s eating his children! I knew this day would come I just didn’t expect it to be so obvious! He needs engagement so he is going to incite people to say crazy things and then they are going to get in trouble and never be able to get a hold of him. He’s just literally fucking with the US government right now. I don’t know why but I think Musk is flexing his political strength in a way that he doesn’t realize will destroy him.

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• PrincessLeiasCat@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  lol sure he will. He won’t even pay rent.

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  • whofearsthenight@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Remember that time he offered to solve world hunger but then didn’t because “nah” basically?

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    • rostby@lemmy.fmhy.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      They didn’t come up with a plan and when he asked they were like 🤷‍♂️

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    • abrasiveteapot@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Aid spokesman engaged hyperbole drive and tweeted “if a billionaire like @musk gave us $40bn we could solve world hunger”

      Musk replied “ok i’m listening, show me how you can solve it, if it sounds real I’ll write the cheque”

      Aid spokesman (back pedalling) “well not solve as such, but definitely make better”

      Musk “whatevs then”

      I mean he does say so much actual stupid shit, why do you guys keep making shit up ?

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  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    No, but we can trust him this time. All those other lies were completely unrelated. /s

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  • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s possible. He literally burnt an extra 150 million dollars by bumping his offer for twitter to 54.20 just to make it a stupid 420 meme. It’s not like he doesn’t have the money to pay those bills.

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    • PrincessLeiasCat@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’m not saying he doesn’t have the money - I was mostly commenting on his outright refusal to pay other bills.

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• db2@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  He’s not offering it to former employees, but they should absolutely go for it very very publicly. Musk is fishing for money from Trump and Kanye, it’s probably some kind of laundering scheme.

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  • foggy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    He will have to sue HIMSELF! diabolical!

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    • ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Suing himself is the only way he’ll win a Twitter m-related lawsuit.

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• Hildegarde@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The kid can’t even pay his own rent, how’s he going to afford legal fees?

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  • CmdrShepard@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    They are actually responsible for paying arbitration for all the ex-employees suing the company after Twitter argued in court that they must go through arbitration. Last I heard was that they were having trouble paying these legal costs as well.

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• odbol@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Didn’t he fire one of the twitter engineers because he corrected him on a Twitter thread?

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  • droans@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yeah but he called a free speech absolutist timeout.

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• autotldr@lemmings.world [bot] ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This is the best summary I could come up with:

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  Elon Musk has said his X social media platform will pay the legal bills and sue on the behalf of people who have been treated “unfairly” by employers because of posting or liking something on the site formerly known as Twitter.

  “If you were unfairly treated by your employer due to posting or liking something on this platform, we will fund your legal bill,” Musk said in a post on X late on Saturday, adding that there will be no limits to funding the bills.

  “And we won’t just sue, it will be extremely loud and we will go after the boards of directors of the companies too,” Musk said later in response to a post about nothing changing behavior in the US faster than a threat of legal action.

  The figures came as the company is going through organizational changes and is looking to boost falling advertising revenue.

  After 17 years with an iconic blue bird logo that came to symbolize the broadcasting of ideas to the world, Musk renamed Twitter as X and unveiled a new logo in July, marking a focus on building an “everything app”.

  Earlier in July, the billionaire whose other companies include SpaceX and Tesla had said that the social media platform’s cashflow remains negative because of a nearly 50% drop in advertising revenue and a heavy debt load.

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  I’m a bot and I’m open source!

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  • infix@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    good bot!

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• MaxVerstappen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Does this sub post anything other than Elon Musk bullshit?!

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  • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I find it fascinating to watch overall, but yeah how billionaires decide to administer their website isn’t really technology. Categorizing it as such feels like a consequence of a decision some boomer made back in the 90s to administer their newspaper that got adopted by default as the method websites are administered (which still isn’t technology).

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• Hextic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  A Musk (or Trump) Never pays his debts.

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  • elvith@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Alexa, play “The Rains of CastMuskamere”

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• rikudou@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Is it the same guy who barely can afford to pay the servers and owes wherever he looks?

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  • sour@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    If any right-wing nutjob is reading this: You should count on him actually paying for you. Go wild! But make sure to use your public profile so people don’t think you’re a bot!

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• Candelestine@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I think he is sorely underestimating how many people are going to contact him about this offer. lol

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  • phillaholic@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    He’s not going to pay them shit. He didn’t pay his cloud bills or office rent.

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    • WarmSoda@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      When are these landlords and services going to start shutting him down? My popcorn is getting stale over here.

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  • average650@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I mean, he can just deny the majority of them. It doesn’t matter.

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  • InvertedParallax@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Also how many lawyers.

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• mindbleach@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Two fantasies - one, that anybody’s been persecuted for posting on what was the most popular communication tool in the world, and two, that a narcissist ignoring his own bills will ever cover yours.

  People don’t get fired for where they post.

  People get fired for what they post.

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• HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Can’t Musk posts just go to EnoughMuskSpam?

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• pottedmeat7910@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Do you want to pay the legal bills for a bunch of closet Nazis? Because that’s how you wind up paying the legal bills for a bunch of closet Nazis.

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  • billiam0202@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    And Musk would have a problem supporting Nazis how…?

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• DocMcStuffin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Twitter is still underwater from losing half their advertiser revenue plus the billions in debt they still owe. He’s not going to pay out unless he can find one particular case that will bring lots of attention. Elmo is an attention whore that everyone needs to ignore.

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  • PeleSpirit@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    If he goes out of the news cycle for one day, he does something stupid. Is anyone besides right wing assholes still on his site?

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• Draegur@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  LOL

  Imagine Elon Musk actually fucking PAYING HIS DEBTS

  YEAH PAL PULL THE OTHER ONE

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• rotopenguin@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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  There, does that sound any more believable?

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  • BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    No. He doesn’t pay his own bills!

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• Mojojojo1993@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Will he be paying his own bills ? Think quite a few are overdrawn

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• foggy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Okay so I have an LLC, can I hire my girlfriend and then fire her for something she posted on Twitter and then have musk come after me? That would be hilarious.

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  • new_acct_who_dis@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Please do this, for science!

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• son_named_bort@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  He may offer to pay the legal bills, but he won’t do it.

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• phillycodehound@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  He doesn’t even pay his own bills! What makes anyone think he’ll follow through on this. This guy is worse that the boy who cried wolf!

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• Tronn4@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Oh musk. Stf

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• housepanther@lemmy.goblackcat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Musk cannot even pay for the office space that he is leasing. What makes anyone that he will pay for your legal bills? What shit crock.

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• Javish@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This modafucka can’t even pay his own company’s bills on time.

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• s38b35M5@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Tell us you want your social media company to be a popular version of truth social without telling us you want your social media company to…

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• Jackolantern@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  what a clown 🤡

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• SaiPenguin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I could see this being a fishing expedition looking for a “case” to rally folks behind and to muddy the waters.

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• xc2215x@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  A way of helping out his supporters. Nothing more than that.

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