r/facepalm Sep 02 '24

๐Ÿ‡ฒโ€‹๐Ÿ‡ฎโ€‹๐Ÿ‡ธโ€‹๐Ÿ‡จโ€‹ Smarts. He has it.

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u/doc_daneeka Sep 02 '24

Don't forget though, that since Musk demonstrated in court that 'pedo guy' is somehow not defamatory, it's apparently ok to publicly refer to him that way now.

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u/fltonii Sep 02 '24

Wait... did this rly happen? How the fuck can anyone make that case?

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u/warthog0869 Sep 03 '24

On Twitter.

Just not in Brazil anymore.

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u/doc_daneeka Sep 03 '24

He was sued for calling someone that, and a jury ruled in his favour. So clearly that's not really defamatory, right?

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u/BossMagnus Sep 03 '24

He said that itโ€™s a common thing to call people ๐Ÿ˜‘

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u/SxyLilBobcat Sep 03 '24

Oh I am sure their AI content scrubber they use found plenty of hits with that phrase on X.

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u/According_Fold_7580 Sep 03 '24

Also didnโ€™t his own AI twitter posting bot end up calling him a pedo after a few interactions too? And he just labelled that a glitchโ€ฆ