He’s not offering it to former employees, but they should absolutely go for it very very publicly. Musk is fishing for money from Trump and Kanye, it’s probably some kind of laundering scheme.
Trump is very obviously not coming back to Twitter, doesn’t have an employer, and he’s offering to pay for the service, not charge for it, so I’m not sure how that theory pans out.
Okay so I have an LLC, can I hire my girlfriend and then fire her for something she posted on Twitter and then have musk come after me? That would be hilarious.
Perhaps he’s forgotten that free speech means you’re free to say whatever you want, but you’re not free from the repercussions. Especially in all the “at will” employee states.
“At will” is pure conservative bullshit, right down to the name being a lie that makes “fired for illegal reasons but wink wink doesn’t count” harmful to even discuss.
No relation to Musk’s stupidity. Just picking a nit.
That’s exactly what I mean. Employees in At Will states can legally be fired for anything short of violations of protected classes, so I’m not sure how he’s expecting to win here.
Musk’s philosophy is apparently: if it’s not okay to fire someone for being trans, a woman or for their race, why is it okay to fire someone for being anti-trans, misogynistic or racist?
No, they can be fired for those reasons, it’s on the fired employee to prove it was because of those protected reasons and be able to fight it after the fact in court.
When an employer can choose to go into as little detail as “you’re fired because I said so” it takes a very stupid employer to lose that fight.
It helps if you still have friends that work at the company, that can kind of spy for you too.
An older woman was fired from the company I worked at in the early 2000s, and she was friends with a few people that still worked at the company. Found out she was replaced with a younger less qualified guy, and her friends were able to corroborate a lot of the ageism/sexism stuff, and she won the suit. Think she ended up being awarded something like whatever her salary was until the age of retirement, and ended up with close to a million dollar settlement.
Stupid? Definitely. A play out of Trump’s playbook? Kinda. Normally Trump is the one that gets sued.
They will probably look to get small to mid size employers to settle in order to avoid a costly legal battles. Although I wouldn’t be surprised if this is all just a ploy to keep his fanboys in line.
Two fantasies - one, that anybody’s been persecuted for posting on what was the most popular communication tool in the world, and two, that a narcissist ignoring his own bills will ever cover yours.
Twitter is still underwater from losing half their advertiser revenue plus the billions in debt they still owe. He’s not going to pay out unless he can find one particular case that will bring lots of attention. Elmo is an attention whore that everyone needs to ignore.
He’ll never actually do it. He simply wants to encourage more people to say outrageous things so engagement levels increase as everyone does dumb shit.
When I look at the current state of the internet, I pine for the simpler days of the nineties when a/s/l and stormfront.org look downright warm and fuzzy in comparison. That was just weird individuals being weird. Now it’s institutionalized across the entire Internet.
He’s eating his children! I knew this day would come I just didn’t expect it to be so obvious! He needs engagement so he is going to incite people to say crazy things and then they are going to get in trouble and never be able to get a hold of him. He’s just literally fucking with the US government right now. I don’t know why but I think Musk is flexing his political strength in a way that he doesn’t realize will destroy him.
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