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How scared should Elon Musk be of the FTC?
Elon Musk has a history of successfully ignoring regulators. But a Federal Trade Commission consent decree has loomed over Twitter since he bought it, and Techdirt’s Mike Masnick dissects a larger Washington Post story to explain just how big a risk Musk is taking. It’s also a delight to read, featuring my favorite topical burn of the month:
Tesla having “plenty of experience on privacy matters” is meaningless in this context. It’s the equivalent of someone asking Sam Bankman-Fried if he understood the laws against money laundering, and SBF responded by saying “I manage my resources well in League of Legends.”
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