X fails to avoid Australia child safety fine by arguing Twitter doesn’t exist
Elon Musk merging Twitter into X didn't absolve X from child safety fine.
Elon Musk's X (formerly Twitter) remains on the hook for an approximately $400,000 fine after failing to respond to an Australia eSafety Commission 2023 inquiry, which largely sought to probe measures X is currently taking to combat an alleged proliferation of child sexual abuse material (CSAM) on its platform.
To void the fine, X tried to persuade Australian Judge Michael Wheelahan that X had no obligation to comply with an Online Safety Act notice issued to Twitter because Twitter "ceased to exist" a few weeks after receiving the notice—when Musk merged the app into his company X Corp.
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I would 100x the fucking fine just for trying that argument if I was the judge.
I’m not sure about Australia’s laws, but in the US, that could result in recusal of the judge on the grounds of bias.
that's not really a problem if the judge simply changes their name
"I'm Judge jaXon now!"
Guys, I found how you can get rid of all your debt.
Thing is, that's exactly how you do it as a capitalist.
Compartmentalise your businesses and ensure they're registered so as to never come after your personal assets should they go bust.
Then, if the business fails and goes bust, shut it down, sack everyone, and a week later reopen in the same place with a slightly different name and rehire most of the same staff under the new company.
The new company is not in any way legally connected to the old one, and the one one's debts are to be handled whatever administration firm took all that over, etc.
I've seen it happen first hand here in the UK, good example of why capitalists are scumbags that are above our laws.
This reads like a sovcit defense.
Anyway, start charging interest. A lot. Backdated to October of last year.
"same person" eugh
I expect no less from this child
It's like the game you play with a baby where you put your hands over your face to hide.
I wish companies and people were held to the standards of their own arguments.
For example because X claimed they don't owe anything because they changed their name from Twitter, any business dealing with X would legally be allowed to use the same argument.
The fine was not written in red ink diagonally across the postage stamp. No countsy.
-Elon Musk
Brilliant!
Wait Elon Musk is using the soviet strategy
I thought he disliked the "woke communists"
https://youtu.be/z77JFw2D6f8 ?
I hope the judge chuckles for a moment then triples what he owes.
lol he really went for the sovcit strats. fucking idiot.
He's still going to deadname his daughter
Came here to say this. Dude routinely misgenders and deadnames his daughter and claims that she died from “the woke mind virus”, then he turns around and tries to pull this shit.
I'm not sure why the famed Family Circus defense didn't work...
I don't get it? I searched defense on that page and got nothing.
Is it about being absurd?
Were you really under the impression that I was serious about it being a famed legal defense? Read the "Gremlins" section I linked to.
No I absolutely expected it to be sarcasm.
I read the part, and that's quite funny and fitting.
I've got a friend that lives with me, my friend's name is Nobody...
So i committed a crime, i didn't know if i change my name i could get out of it
does this mean the twitter brand is up for grabs? anyone can start up a new website at twitter dot com? musk's letting go of it completely?
Had to double take to confirm it didn't say they argued Australia doesn't exist
Close. It's New Zealand that doesn't exist. I checked the map.
That fucking thumbnail photo 🤣
That's ripe meme material.
You still have the bowl, Milhouse.
I'm thinking Musk may be in a "Brewster's Millions" situation, in which he needs to spend every penny he has and end up with absolutely no assets in order to win an even larger fortune.
If we're really, really lucky, someone scammed him to think that he'd win a fortune, and after he's lost everything he'll discover there's no fortune.
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