Amazon admits no basis for damages in $1M asset seizure by DOJ

Re:Amazon admits no basis for damages in $1M asset seizure b... by jacquesm on Friday December 30, 2022 @10:24AM (#34185826)

If Musk stuck to fighting climate change and his Mars mission I'd be fine with him. But he doesn't. He uses his money to actively destroy people and their reputations just for the lolz, is a continuous source of noise rather than signal and is about equal parts destructive as he is creative. Given another couple of years like the last two I would not be surprised if he final tally ends up as a significant net negative for society.

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Re:Amazon admits no basis for damages in $1M asset seizure b... by coffeeblack on Friday December 30, 2022 @10:56AM (#34186170)

For example? Who did he “destroy for the lolz”?

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Re:Amazon admits no basis for damages in $1M asset seizure b... by Xylakant on Friday December 30, 2022 @11:37AM (#34186654)

Remember the episode with the cavediver rescuing children from a flooded cave that musk called a pedophile and then refused to back down? That one for example.

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Re:Amazon admits no basis for damages in $1M asset seizure b... by coffeeblack on Friday December 30, 2022 @11:45AM (#34186744)

You mean where he worked with the Thai government on a rescue plan, got attacked verbally by that dude, attacked back, and then the dude couldn’t take it? Yes, I remember that he apologized a day later, even though the other one started it.

Sure I know, because it’s the one thing bad that’s repeated and repeated about him, and he didn’t even start it. And he apologized.

Any example that is actually bad?

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Re:Amazon admits no basis for damages in $1M asset seizure b... by Xylakant on Friday December 30, 2022 @11:50AM (#34186812)

The guy as an expert in his domain publicly called musks idea out as unworkable. Is that any kind of reason to call him a pedophile? Is that the standard that we should hold one of the most powerful men in the world to? That’s behavior I’d not accept from my five year old.

And he apologized after substantial public backlash, not because he had a change of mind.

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Re:Amazon admits no basis for damages in $1M asset seizure b... by sleepybrett on Friday December 30, 2022 @11:42AM (#34186702)

I'm not sure about destroy but attempt to destroy at the very least.

The guy that rescued the kids out of that cave in thailand(?), Yoel Roth, that twitter engineer that told him on twitter that he had his facts wrong... that's just a short list I'm sure that if I weren't posting this while eating breakfast I could cite more.

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Re:Amazon admits no basis for damages in $1M asset seizure b... by coffeeblack on Friday December 30, 2022 @11:50AM (#34186802)

And another one about the cave dude. Please see my other reply for that case.

Regarding the Twitter guy: Yoel Roth was a different person. What was bad about how he treated Roth and the Twitter Android guy (I guess that’s who you actually were referring to)?

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Re:Amazon admits no basis for damages in $1M asset seizure b... by Xylakant on Friday December 30, 2022 @12:45PM (#34187503)

He selectively cited Roth’s academic work to make it appear as if Roth was supporting grooming and sexualization of children, despite the work doing none of that.

Roth had to flee their home due to threats to their safety.

Has Musk apologized yet?

https://gaynrd.com/if-yoel-roth-is-harmed-should-elon-musk-f...

Falsely implying other people are pedophiles or support pedophiles actions seems to be a recurring pattern in this context.

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Re:Amazon admits no basis for damages in $1M asset seizure b... by coffeeblack on Saturday December 31, 2022 @08:33AM (#34196288)

It was a direct quote from Roth’s dissertation, including context. Nobody “had to flee”.

Old Twitter had countless tweets containing images of violence against children. Under Musk it took only days to remove all of that.

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Re:Amazon admits no basis for damages in $1M asset seizure b... by jacquesm on Friday December 30, 2022 @11:56AM (#34186890)

Just one example:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-03-13/when-elon...

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