Australia takes on Elon Musk over spike in online hate on Twitter

curiosityLynx, 11 months ago

1. Thanks for posting a non-paywall version.
2. Wtf, Twitter's standard automated reply to press queries is a poo emoji now?

UntouchedWagons, 11 months ago

The poo emoji has been a thing for months.

Grant_M, 11 months ago

Great to see!

HappyMeatbag, 11 months ago

I don’t think it’ll ever happen, but I would LOVE to see Musk detained and fined.

floofloof, 11 months ago

You can't fine him an amount he'd care about. Beyond a certain amount of wealth, fines are no longer a punishment or a disincentive.

Butterbee, 11 months ago

Hell he's such an attention seeker he'd wear the fines as a badge of honour

HappyMeatbag, 11 months ago

In many cases, I would agree, but the article says

If Twitter does not respond, it faces fines of $687,000 a day.

We’re not talking about a single payment for a fixed amount. I think he’d actually care about this. It would add up fast if he tried to ignore it.

Da_Boom, 11 months ago

Yeah, and he'll never be able to go down under again. I'm not sure what he thinks of Australia, or if he's ever been here. But that's one less potential holiday destination for him in the event twitter gets convicted.

AnnaPlusPlus, 11 months ago

Google tells me his net worth is $234.4 billion. That’s enough money for 341,193 days of fines, or just over 900 years. So no, he probably won’t care

Mishmash2000, 11 months ago

Wow?! So it's basically in the region of a normal person paying about 10-20 cents fine a day or the cost of a cup of coffee every month or two.

6fn, 11 months ago

Even if the fine were to reach half of what he spent on Twitter, he would have to pay them $687,000/day for longer than the average life expectancy in the healthiest country on earth (87 years). A billion is such an absurd number.

dark_stang, 11 months ago

In some places, fines are based on income or wealth. Like speeding tickets in Finland. So hopefully it'll happen and he will feel it.