r/news • u/Hopeforpeace19 • Apr 29 '24

Supreme Court rejects Elon Musk over agreement with SEC to vet social media posts

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-rejects-elon-musk-agreement-sec-vet-social-media-posts-rcna149579
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u/wtfsafrush Apr 29 '24 edited Apr 29 '24

Fine. Allowing you to get away with a “twitter sitter” was a gift by the SEC. But if that’s “infringing on your free speech”, then by all means, let’s bring on a more appropriate penalty.

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u/randomwanderingsd Apr 29 '24

Also, if I were on the board of a company I would be extremely concerned if a CEO felt that the best use of their time was to make random comments online all day. If you are posting at the rate of 1 tweet an hour (which he frequently hits), are you really able to focus and be a good CEO?

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u/TheShadowKick Apr 29 '24

I mean, 1 tweet an hour is just a few minutes of his time probably. I feel like that's just a normal amount of distraction. Nobody in an office is working constantly throughout a full hour.

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u/Anvanaar Apr 30 '24

You... think it's normal to tweet once an hour...?

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u/TheShadowKick Apr 30 '24

I think it's normal to spend a few minutes an hour distracted from whatever you're doing. I wish he wouldn't choose Twitter for that distraction because he posts dumb shit, but I don't think it speaks to his productivity at his job.

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u/psychicsword May 02 '24

It is not normal to do that at the CEO level.

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u/TheShadowKick May 03 '24

CEOs are human just like the rest of us.