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Comment by tempsy | Hacker News Reader

Elon now says he’s going to sue the developer https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1603190155107794944

a billionaire with unlimited resources suing a 19 year old for using public APIs. no one should support that.

And just the other day Musk accused Roth of being a pedo for disagreeing with him. Roth has been threatened and has had to leave his home for safety reasons since.

Does Musk not remember what happened the last time he accused someone of being a "pedo"? Though US courts will be more sympathetic to him than UK ones were.

Oh, and we all know what it means when someone is publicly fixated on finding / bringing pedos to justice, right?

> "what happened the last time he accused someone of being a 'pedo'"

You mean absolutely nothing? He won that trial

Vernon Unsworth sued in the US and lost. His lawyer was Lin Wood, who went from losing what seemed like an easy case, to proposing some of the more batshit legal theories of the 2020 election.

But Musk won, on the basis that he was making a joke. IANAL but I have to think that legal precedent that he jokes by calling people pedos means he can now call anyone a pedo with impunity.

I think it's safe to say Lin Wood is not a good lawyer.

With Roth now though it's clearly not a joke.

I already think of him as Elon "The Pedo Guy Guy" Musk

I do support it, actions have consequences. Using an API is not a defense. You can probably use an API to do untold damage to the world. It's not a neutral action because it's an API. Further, at 19 you're responsible for your actions.

Similarly, I support legal action against Musk in cases where his unhinged tweets do real world damage to people.

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