It's not just about revenge. His ego has him thinking he is the only one who can protect the world he wants, and that his vision for humanity is the correct one. He's ####ing pissed off that he's bumping up against reality, where people stand against racists, bigots, and Nazis and with Xitter bleeding money and the only advertisements on the platform being scams, the writing is on the wall. This is a hail marry attempt to try to salvage perhaps the biggest dumbest purchase in the history of capitalism.
He should be ridiculed and laughed at. Suing advertisers has nothing to do with his daughter.
A bit of it has to be boredom and loneliness. The guy is chronically online, interacting with the few empty heads left that draw him the attention he needs.
It's also gotta be some misplaced, perverted sense of legacy. While Branson and Bezos are trying to get to space, Musk is trying to manufacture a space and ideology nobody wants except the sycophants who suck his teat. His only popularity comes from wealth and saying stupid ####, which unfortunately is adopted more often these days.
What a total waste of time and money.
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So, apparently, the EU is threatening to block X from operating in the EU if they don't comply with EU's rules and laws. I'm not sure why this is such a big deal? If any business wants to operate in another country, they need to comply by their rules, period.
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Sandro Gozi, who is Italian but elected as an MEP in France, made the threat in an interview with#La Repubblica. The paper#quotes#him as saying:
“If Elon Musk does not comply with the European rules on digital services, the EU Commission will ask the continental operators to block X or, in the most extreme case, force them to completely dismantle the platform in the territory of the Union.”
I, for one, am shocked. Just a note that seven banks secured only $13 billion, not the full $44.
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Musk paid $44 billion for the social media site in October 2022. As of March 31, the holding has lost an estimated 71.5% of its value—and the underperformance of those loans, reports the Wall Street Journal, is the worst the banking industry has seen since the real estate crisis of 2008.
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The banks probably deserve to lose that money. Imagine loaning the richest guy in the world money to buy a company, but then securing the loan against the company and not any of the hundreds of billions of dollars in assets that Musk owned.
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