Current Events > "When in doubt, smear people as pedophiles" - Elon Musk

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Antifar
12/11/22 10:15:22 AM
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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-12-11/elon-musk-steps-up-attacks-on-twitter-s-former-safety-head
Elon Musk posted tweets including an excerpt of Yoel Roths doctoral dissertation Saturday that suggested the former Twitter executive is an advocate for child sexualization a baseless trope that leaves Roth susceptible to online abuse.

Musk bought Twitter in late October for $44 billion and has singled out Roth, the former head of Twitters Trust & Safety division, and ex-legal head Vijaya Gadde for left-wing bias as he made swift changes. Both have long been the target of right-wing attacks over Twitters decision to ban former President Donald Trump from the platform after the violent insurrection at the US Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

Roth declined to comment Saturday.

Musk participated in a Twitter Spaces Friday night about childhood exploitation, and responded to one of the participants on Saturday after she linked to an old tweet of Roths.

Looks like Yoel is arguing in favor of children being able to access adult Internet services in his PhD thesis, tweeted Musk, with an excerpt from the 300-page dissertation. Gay Data, the title of Roths 2016 dissertation at the University of Pennsylvania, is about Grindr, the geosocial networking service popular with the LGBTQ+ community.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1601660414743687169

Far-right and extremist voices have long pushed a false claim that LGBTQ+ people are sexual predators who are grooming children to abuse them. In September, the Anti-Defamation Leagues Center for Extremism said that the result of this widespread hateful rhetoric has been a spike in harassment, threats and violence targeting the LGBTQ+ community.

Musk in 2018 called a British caver who was involved in the rescue of a trapped Thai youth soccer team a pedo guy. One of his aides paid $50,000 to hire a private investigator in a futile attempt to back up the assertion. In 2019, Musk beat back a defamation claim from the cave expert in a Los Angeles court in 2019.

When Musk first purchased Twitter in late October, he expressed support for Roth before the executive resigned in November.


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DoesntMatter
12/11/22 10:19:39 AM
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what a piece of shit

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DipDipDiver
12/11/22 10:25:38 AM
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I wonder how much projection is going on here

I heard this guy likes to trade ponies for sex
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Intro2Logic
12/11/22 10:27:24 AM
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Antifar posted...
In 2019, Musk beat back a defamation claim from the cave expert in a Los Angeles court in 2019.
Did you know: the cave guy's lawyer was Lin Wood, who went on to be Trump's lawyer during his election fraud bullshit.

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gunplagirl
12/11/22 10:28:06 AM
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DipDipDiver posted...
I wonder how much projection is going on here

I heard this guy likes to trade ponies for sex
He went to super pedo island so I'd assume he's definitely a pedo and it's just standard projection.

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COVxy
12/11/22 10:30:54 AM
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Straight out of the right-wing rhetoric handbook.

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Jagr_68
12/11/22 10:56:49 AM
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For all we know, he probably thought Grimes was underage so yeah projection from Musk as usual.

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IShall_Run_Amok
12/11/22 11:03:22 AM
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He really is just as much of a trash person as Donald Trump.

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CARRRNE_ASADA
12/11/22 11:16:10 AM
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DipDipDiver posted...
I wonder how much projection is going on here

I heard this guy likes to trade ponies for sex

Also Grimes is an adult, but has the body of an undeveloped teenager. Not saying dating her makes you a pedo, but its sus for some.

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VeggetaX
12/11/22 11:20:26 AM
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Don't repubs do that?

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Irony
12/11/22 11:20:53 AM
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VeggetaX posted...
Don't repubs do that?
Yes Republicans project

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KeeperOfShadows
12/11/22 11:24:46 AM
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So he's a CEman?

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lennethsoki
12/11/22 11:41:11 AM
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How's this any different from the average CEman?

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thronedfire2
12/11/22 11:43:37 AM
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Umm, that thesis sounds like he wants to make the internet safer for gay teens, not the other way around

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rivers
12/11/22 11:44:12 AM
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Jagr_68 posted...
For all we know, he probably thought Grimes was underage so yeah projection from Musk as usual.
why would he think that about a woman in her thirties with age-appropriate skeletal dimensions and hairy pits

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Solid_Sonic
12/11/22 11:45:01 AM
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Works pretty well for CE...

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Robot2600
12/11/22 11:46:55 AM
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It's a dissertation, not a thesis.

fuck elon musk, no wonder grimes left his ass

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emblem-man
12/11/22 11:48:26 AM
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Guy has truly lost it these last few years.

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Solid_Sonic
12/11/22 11:49:46 AM
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emblem-man posted...
Guy has truly lost it these last few years.

I thought you liked people to be honest about their true selves and living behind a constructed facade is for social cowards.

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emblem-man
12/11/22 12:02:30 PM
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Solid_Sonic posted...
I thought you liked people to be honest about their true selves and living behind a constructed facade is for social cowards.

I mean, if this is who he is, it's good that he's letting all of us know.
In regards to hiding behind facades, I wish he'd stop masking his dislike over "woke" () policies with such a stupid "free speech/expression" argument. It's a lie. He doesn't care about free speech like he says he does. He just disliked specific policies and content and wants to defend it by masking the argument in "free speech". He, like others that do the same thing are cowards

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Alucard188
12/11/22 6:13:46 PM
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Because it's their last great pearl clutch against LGBT people.

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Mibahlzitch
12/11/22 8:37:45 PM
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"but maybe people who don't want to be misgendered are the REAL bigots, ever think of that?"

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Rharyx211
12/11/22 8:38:06 PM
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Elon is both clinically unfunny and an insecure tool at the same time. What a fucking loser.

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Smashingpmkns
12/11/22 8:39:03 PM
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https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/1/7/0/AAPstsAAD-ri.jpg

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IShall_Run_Amok
12/11/22 8:51:00 PM
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Smashingpmkns posted...
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/1/7/0/AAPstsAAD-ri.jpg
Remember, THIS is why conservatives simp for Musk.

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CruelBuffalo
12/11/22 10:17:13 PM
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metallica846 posted...
Wow hes really taking the mask fully off

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/1/6/6/AABjp5AAD-re.jpg


Ugh he really is a piece of shit
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Punished_Blinx
12/11/22 10:19:45 PM
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thronedfire2 posted...
Umm, that thesis sounds like he wants to make the internet safer for gay teens, not the other way around

That's why he is mad.

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Heineken14
12/11/22 10:29:02 PM
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blackrider76
12/11/22 10:34:33 PM
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Who is that Eliza person hes responding to?

Also, there is actually a grain of truth to this. Twitter has been notoriously bad at taking down CSEM. It was only recently that they started taking down the hashtags people used to distribute them, well after Musk took over.

On that note, loli is no longer a valid search term for that reason.

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Ruvan22
12/11/22 10:42:34 PM
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The first paragraph doesn't even address Kelly's concern!!! How is "Forcing people to use pronouns isn't kind" in any grammatical way an answer to "Don't mock/make fun of people"? It's like saying "I strongly disagree - not having speed limits is dangerous" in response to "Don't shoot guns at cars driving by"
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Flintlock_Staff
12/11/22 10:49:29 PM
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Can't musk just finish his mars base or something and go live there so we don't need to hear from him again
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KINDERFELD
12/11/22 10:58:48 PM
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Statistics show that the majority of pedophiles identify as heterosexual...

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kingdrake2
12/11/22 11:01:51 PM
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Flintlock_Staff posted...
Can't musk just finish his mars base or something and go live there so we don't need to hear from him again


it's a valid option. just cant come quick enough.

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Ruvan22
12/11/22 11:12:14 PM
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No I follow that, I just don't see how that contradicts Kelly's point (don't mock them). If Musk tried to argue that he *wasn't* mocking them it would be somewhat of a counterargument..
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gunplagirl
12/12/22 12:11:54 AM
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KINDERFELD posted...
Statistics show that the majority of pedophiles identify as heterosexual...
To expand on that fact, the majority of child molesters/ rapists have an immediate relationship to the victim and/ or the victim's family. For instance, a priest who the family attends church under or an uncle or a father or a friend of the parents or a teacher or a coach or a neighbor or a babysitter.

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TetsuoS2
12/12/22 12:19:30 AM
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people be like:

"i dont care about pronouns"
then go, "ugh changing a single word to talk to someone else is so hard."

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gunplagirl
12/12/22 12:28:03 AM
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TetsuoS2 posted...
people be like:

"i dont care about pronouns"
then go, "ugh changing a single word to talk to someone else is so hard."
"Am I being transphobic? No, the trans people are the bad guys for wanting me to not perpetuate behaviors that are resulting in the hate crimes launched against them."

Musk is a fucking monster.

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nexigrams
12/12/22 12:38:13 AM
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This has the same energy as, "I know it's uncomfortable to think about high school kids having sex, but they're going to do it anyway so let's make it as safe as possible and teach them about using protection."

Certain people's reaction to this says quite a bit about how they view queer people.

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TetsuoS2
12/12/22 12:49:55 AM
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gunplagirl posted...
"Am I being transphobic? No, the trans people are the bad guys for wanting me to not perpetuate behaviors that are resulting in the hate crimes launched against them."

Musk is a fucking monster.

idk why the ultra rich are allowed to buy/control media companies, it's so ass.

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VeggetaX
12/12/22 12:53:29 AM
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What is he talking about with Fauci?

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TetsuoS2
12/12/22 5:03:44 AM
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VeggetaX posted...
What is he talking about with Fauci?

Elon is a covid denier

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TomClark
12/12/22 5:07:50 AM
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DoesntMatter posted...
what a piece of shit


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rexcrk
12/12/22 7:18:15 AM
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KeeperOfShadows posted...
So he's a CEman?


lennethsoki posted...
How's this any different from the average CEman?


Solid_Sonic posted...
Works pretty well for CE...


These


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CruelBuffalo
12/12/22 10:13:55 AM
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https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1602278477234728960

Dude is posting like a CE troll
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BuckVanHammer
12/12/22 10:18:45 AM
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CruelBuffalo posted...
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1602278477234728960

Dude is posting like a CE troll
What the fuck happened to this dude, has he always been this cringe and I just didn't notice?

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