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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.
This is so stupid.
"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.
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.
Wow! Getting fired was the best move of her career then.
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.
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.
Good luck to anyone who falls for this.
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.
I suspect he may have read this article and taken it to heart:
"They need us. We don't need them:" The fall of Twitter is making the trolls and grifters desperate
lol sure he will. He won’t even pay rent.
Remember that time he offered to solve world hunger but then didn't because "nah" basically?
No, but we can trust him this time. All those other lies were completely unrelated. /s
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.
The kid can't even pay his own rent, how's he going to afford legal fees?
They are actually responsible for paying arbitration for all the ex-employees suing the company after Twitter argued in court that they must go through arbitration. Last I heard was that they were having trouble paying these legal costs as well.
Didn't he fire one of the twitter engineers because he corrected him on a Twitter thread?
Yeah but he called a free speech absolutist timeout.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Elon Musk has said his X social media platform will pay the legal bills and sue on the behalf of people who have been treated “unfairly” by employers because of posting or liking something on the site formerly known as Twitter.
“If you were unfairly treated by your employer due to posting or liking something on this platform, we will fund your legal bill,” Musk said in a post on X late on Saturday, adding that there will be no limits to funding the bills.
“And we won’t just sue, it will be extremely loud and we will go after the boards of directors of the companies too,” Musk said later in response to a post about nothing changing behavior in the US faster than a threat of legal action.
The figures came as the company is going through organizational changes and is looking to boost falling advertising revenue.
After 17 years with an iconic blue bird logo that came to symbolize the broadcasting of ideas to the world, Musk renamed Twitter as X and unveiled a new logo in July, marking a focus on building an “everything app”.
Earlier in July, the billionaire whose other companies include SpaceX and Tesla had said that the social media platform’s cashflow remains negative because of a nearly 50% drop in advertising revenue and a heavy debt load.
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Is it the same guy who barely can afford to pay the servers and owes wherever he looks?
If any right-wing nutjob is reading this: Don't count on him actually paying something for you.
If any right-wing nutjob is reading this: You should count on him actually paying for you. Go wild! But make sure to use your public profile so people don't think you're a bot!
I think he is sorely underestimating how many people are going to contact him about this offer. lol
He’s not going to pay them shit. He didn’t pay his cloud bills or office rent.
I mean, he can just deny the majority of them. It doesn't matter.
Also how many lawyers.
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.
People don't get fired for where they post.
People get fired for what they post.
He doesn't even pay his own bills. What makes people believe he'll actually pay theirs? He may pay one person's bill at first to get a flurry of news attention, but he'll definitely leave everyone else out to rot.
he won’t even pay his rent or his own legal bills… he stiffs his own employees on severance packages. he’s lying if he promises anything.
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.
Do you want to pay the legal bills for a bunch of closet Nazis? Because that's how you wind up paying the legal bills for a bunch of closet Nazis.
And Musk would have a problem supporting Nazis how...?
LOL
Imagine Elon Musk actually fucking PAYING HIS DEBTS
YEAH PAL PULL THE OTHER ONE
Can't Musk posts just go to EnoughMuskSpam?
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There, does that sound any more believable?
No. He doesn't pay his own bills!
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.
Will he be paying his own bills ? Think quite a few are overdrawn
He doesn't even pay his own bills! What makes anyone think he'll follow through on this. This guy is worse that the boy who cried wolf!
He may offer to pay the legal bills, but he won't do it.
what a clown 🤡
Tell us you want your social media company to be a popular version of truth social without telling us you want your social media company to...
Oh musk. Stf
This modafucka can’t even pay his own company’s bills on time.
Musk cannot even pay for the office space that he is leasing. What makes anyone that he will pay for your legal bills? What shit crock.
