Ben Brody, 22, said he was forced to leave his home after Musk falsely accused him of being a federal agent pretending to be a neo-Nazi.

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    1 year ago

    “I’ll say what I want to say,” he said. “And if the consequence of that is losing money, so be it.”

    This statement alone shows exactly how broken our justice system and “freedom of speech” really is. At a rate of $1 million/libelous statement, Musk could make 251,200 false statements compared to the average American’s 0-1 libelous statements.

    When money is a microphone, the person whose microphone is hundreds of thousands of times louder than everyone else’s should ABSOLUTELY be held to a much higher standard. Especially when that person owns the soap box that everyone has to stand on.