Ari Cohn

I explained to the world (ok, to a journalist) that Elon can ban whatever he wants on Twitter, but he's in for a bad and stupid time if he thinks he can sue a kid for posting publicly available flight data.

https://www.newsweek.com/so-much-elon-musks-commitment-free-speech-opinion-1767506

So Much for Elon Musk's Commitment to Free Speech | Opinion

Musk may be betraying his stated commitment to free speech with an apparent crackdown he's launching against an account that targeted him personally.

Newsweek
Dec 16, 2022 at 12:53amWeb
Show threadLong TruongDec 16, 2022
@AriCohn pour one out for the poor lawyer that's going to have to write a paragraph pleading the posting Elons flight info resulted in some crazy guy following a car
Show threadAri CohnDec 16, 2022
@lxtruong pour one out for any lawyer that has to do anything for that guy. Can you imagine?
Show threadLong TruongDec 16, 2022

@AriCohn my friends friend works at SpaceX and has described him as a nuisance owner. I bet those employees at his other companies (tesla excepted) are probably excited he's self immolating on Twitter instead of bugging them.

Tesla employees probably pissed their options are tanking.

Show threadAri CohnDec 16, 2022
@lxtruong sounds about right
Show threadBruce Halperin Dec 16, 2022
@AriCohn @lxtruong which may not even have happened! We only have Elon’s word (the word of a proven liar) that it happened.
Show threadAri CohnDec 16, 2022

@BruceHalperin @lxtruong oh I'm on record as putting it at only a 30% chance of having happened.

Many think that is too high.

Show threadLaureDec 16, 2022
@AriCohn and he bought twitter as his own private megaphone. “Journalists” take the bait, almost every news cycle. Pathetic.
Show threadBiancaDec 16, 2022
@AriCohn I can’t wait to see the pro bono legal team rip Elon to shreds in court. Will we get audio from this case since it’s civil?
Show threadluckysitsinbackDec 16, 2022
@AriCohn
are the knives as long as before ?
Show threadBlanding S TurtleDec 16, 2022
@AriCohn If a far right leader somehow runs a coup here, I think it will look similar to this Twitter collapse.
Show threadSueSaysEnoughDec 16, 2022
@AriCohn oh seriously! The free market allows Elon to do what he will with Twitter. It also allows us to tell him to go pound sand and move on to another platform. He's already hemorrhaging advertisers. If all that's left is the hate filled people and their hate filled pillow salesman, then so be it.
Show threadJoseph KohlmannDec 16, 2022
@AriCohn @mmasnick Stupidity has never stopped Elon Musk, much to his detriment
Show threadIHeartHockey29Dec 16, 2022

@AriCohn

Apparently he didn't file a police report about his supposed incident.

Show threadRuss DesaulniersDec 16, 2022
@iHeartHockey29 @AriCohn
"Can you describe the perpetrator?"
"It was a Ninja, in a Hyundai."
Show threadBecDec 16, 2022
@AriCohn I hope with all my heart that Jack Sweeney counter sues for all sorts of things and demands $500M
or more for emotional distress or whatever it is possible to countersue for.
Show threadJeffgodofbiscuitsDec 16, 2022
@AriCohn I suspect the goal is just to bully and intimidate the kid.
Show threadKay   Dec 16, 2022
@AriCohn Ironic of Musk to use stalking of him or his son as an excuse to ban someone sharing information from Twitter. How does that compare with Musk's publication of misinformation about Twitter’s former head of trust and safety, Yoel Roth, resulting in him becoming a target?
https://www.them.us/story/elon-musk-gay-twitter-employee-grooming-twitter-files
Elon Musk Suggested a Gay Former Twitter Employee Sexualized Kids. He’s Now in Hiding

Musk misrepresented a portion of the employee’s doctoral thesis, saying it advocated for “children being able to access adult Internet services.”

Them.
Show threadGrandpa DonDec 16, 2022
@AriCohn
All together now:
Elon, fuck your feelings!
Show threadlitzDec 16, 2022

@AriCohn If Donald Trump was able to find a lawyer who'd sue the Pulitzer Prize Committee because they awarded Pulitzer Prizes to the Washington Post and New York Times ...

Musk will be able to find *someone* who will represent him in this case.

Show threadprivate_brewingDec 16, 2022
@litz @AriCohn Maybe Giuliani? Now there is a guy who is not afraid of losing. 😆
Show threadVDec 16, 2022
@AriCohn
Show threadBecky WirenDec 16, 2022
@AriCohn I found you! When I first read your tweet for your new home, I couldn't get through. Mastodon and Post.news are busy with new Twitter exiles, I guess.
Show threadDoctor MemoryDec 16, 2022

@AriCohn sure, if his plan is to win the court case, that won’t happen.

If his plan is to absolutely terrify a child and to make it crystal clear that he can make the kid’s life a living hell forever then I’d say mission accomplished. “You’ll probably win in the end” is not exactly reassuring when the context is “you are being sued by a man with functionally limitless resources.”

Show threadKootenaygregDec 16, 2022
@AriCohn elon does know that his flight information will be posted on everything non-Twitter now
Show thread🤖ScottsRobots🤖Dec 16, 2022

@AriCohn @mmasnick

Is this your homework, Larry?

https://youtu.be/qlGlMRQbNik

The Big Lebowski (1998) - Is This Your Homework, Larry? Scene | Movieclips

YouTube
Show threadChris BushDec 16, 2022
@AriCohn I still find it kind of hilarious that he offered the kid $5k. That’s what he makes in…what? 6 seconds? Start the bidding at $10 million.
Show threadLeft Coast Law ReviewDec 16, 2022
@AriCohn yes but what if sues in a jurisdiction that doesn't have anti-SLAPP to make the kid bleed legal fees, like Nunes did to the cow?
Show threadCoach BoDec 16, 2022
@AriCohn so what your saying is…facts dont care about his feelings?
Show threadsceptre1067 (he/him)Dec 16, 2022
@AriCohn yup and as some have pointed out. If he sues that opens up a can of worms for him. Risking more info being released to the public than he might like.
Show threadGdreaper7Dec 16, 2022
@AriCohn While he can ban whoever he wants, could he be sued for his personal remarks accusing them of exposing his real-time exact personal location and endangering his family? In theory.
Show threadluneellise21 (xe/xer)Dec 16, 2022
@AriCohn how about anti-trust laws? when I click links to Mastodon from earlier Twitter posts, it says TWITTER DETERMINES THIS AS HARMFUL WEBSITE?
Show threadk cavaliereDec 16, 2022

@AriCohn Musk is throwing a childish temper tantrum because someone made him feel vulnerable, yet he had no problem putting the safety of Roth and his family into action.

I'll ask again: why is anyone doing business with this vindictive, erratic, eccentric?

Show threadBCVenice1Dec 16, 2022
@AriCohn Well, he did catch the Trumpococcus virus- won’t wear a mask. It’s ironic how he flaunts free speech while suppressing it, another symptom of the disease.
Show threadDebbieDec 16, 2022
@AriCohn For someone as bright as Musk is supposed to be,he's not so bright.