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Elon Musk to fund new First Amendment campaign to combat 'relentless attacks on free speech'

 

Tesla CEO and X owner Elon Musk announced on Thursday that he is launching a new signature campaign to bolster the First Amendment against censorship.

 

"Given the relentless attacks on free speech, I am going to fund a national signature campaign in support of the First Amendment," Musk posted on his X account. 

 

While the details of this new venture remain unclear, Musk has recently criticized new NPR CEO Katherine Maher, who has faced backlash for previous statements about the "truth" and the First Amendment. 

 

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Elon Musk to fund new First Amendment campaign to combat 'relentless attacks on free speech'

 

Tesla CEO and X owner Elon Musk announced on Thursday that he is launching a new signature campaign to bolster the First Amendment against censorship.

 

"Given the relentless attacks on free speech, I am going to fund a national signature campaign in support of the First Amendment," Musk posted on his X account. 

 

While the details of this new venture remain unclear, Musk has recently criticized new NPR CEO Katherine Maher, who has faced backlash for previous statements about the "truth" and the First Amendment. 

 

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I usually see Elon clamoring on about "free speech" as a sign he's trying to either distract from something, or he's trying to give his rep a boost. Or both.

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Hyundai pauses X ads over pro-Nazi content on the platform

 

The automaker Hyundai said it had paused its advertising on Elon Musk’s social media app, X, after a sponsored post from the company appeared next to antisemitic and pro-Nazi posts.

Hyundai confirmed the pause in a statement to NBC News late Wednesday and said it was taking its brand safety concerns to Musk’s company.

“We have paused our ads on X and are speaking to X directly about brand safety to ensure this issue is addressed,” Hyundai said in the statement.

Nancy Levine Stearns, a freelance journalist and X user, posted a screenshot Wednesday of a Hyundai ad running on an X account that often posts Holocaust denial and antisemitism. Stearns has written about brand safety on X for Hill Reporter, a progressive news site.

 

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1 minute ago, Califan007 The Constipated said:

 

That one did lol...and he still flew through the windshield. Apparently the accelerator isn't the only thing with a design flaw. Elon needs to recall all cartoon Cybertrucks asap.

Thats exactly why he bought Twitter for. To make it safe!

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Elon Musk’s Robotaxi Dreams Plunge Tesla Into Chaos

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Elon Musk’s underlings at Tesla Inc. are accustomed to chaos. It comes with the territory of working for a chief executive who sets exacting targets and often abruptly switches directions — whose biographer describes his more intense moods as “demon mode.”

 

But even by Tesla standards, this year has been unruly. Its stock has slid more than 40% amid slumping sales, confusing product decisions and more price cuts. Its once-dominant position in China’s EV market is under assault. A visit with India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi for an anticipated investment announcement was called off at the last minute. All the while, the board has tried to revive a $56 billion payout to Musk that a judge voided in January, on the grounds that directors had acted as “supine servants” to the CEO.

 

On Tuesday, Tesla is expected to report a 40% plunge in operating profit and its first revenue decline in four years. Musk has ordered up the company’s biggest layoffs ever and staked its future on a next-generation, self-driving vehicle concept called the robotaxi. People familiar with his directives, who asked not to be identified discussing internal deliberations, are unsettled by the changes the CEO wants to push through.

 

The idea of creating an autonomous taxi service has been kicking around Tesla for at least eight years, but the company has yet to stand up much of the infrastructure it would need, nor has it secured regulatory approval to test such cars on public roads. For the moment, Musk has put off plans for a $25,000, mass-market vehicle that many Tesla investors — and some insiders — are pushing for and believe is crucial to the carmaker’s future.

 

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Musk has signaled on his social media network that the recent moves amount to activating wartime CEO mode. He liked a post saying as much after sending a companywide email announcing that Tesla was cutting more than 10% of global headcount, which would mean eliminating at least 14,000 jobs.

 

The actual number of people ushered out may exceed 20,000, according to people familiar with the company’s planning. Musk’s reasoning, according to one person with direct knowledge of his edicts, was that Tesla should reduce headcount by 20% because its vehicle deliveries dropped by that amount from the fourth quarter to the first quarter.

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For those still among Tesla’s ranks after this culling, Musk has radically altered the marching orders. The company is “going balls to the wall for autonomy,” he declared last week. The robotaxi is now taking precedence over a cheaper car he first teased four years ago, both with respect to setting timelines for prototypes and arranging production capacity, one person familiar with the planning said.

 

Musk has talked a big game about autonomy for over a decade, and has convinced customers to pay thousands of dollars for a product Tesla has marketed as Full Self-Driving, or FSD. The name is a misnomer — FSD requires constant supervision and doesn’t render vehicles autonomous — but Musk has repeatedly predicted it’s on the verge of measuring up to the branding. “I’m the boy who cried FSD,” he said in July.

 

Musk and top engineers are particularly bullish about a major change in how FSD now works. A recently released version is the first to take a new approach to using raw camera footage to produce actions that drive the vehicle, Ashok Elluswamy, a director of Tesla’s Autopilot program, said on X last month. This should lead to “unprecedented progress,” he wrote.

And he's still asking to be paid 56 billion 

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If the robotaxi actually works then there is no reason for Tesla to sell a low margin $25K electric car when they are already supply constrained. Make it, but use it for your robotaxi service instead. 
 

I have yet to have had to disengage fsd beta 12. Some times I have had to press the accelerator to make it turn on to a road a little faster. So far from what I’ve seen it solves fsd.
 

*not in snow/heavy rain most likely. And I don’t know how well it works in super complex environments.

 

 

 

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The concept of robotixi is the end state. I’ve been saying it for years. 
 

But you need something that can drive autonomously, safely and reliably first. 
 

 

 

He can just run them through his Boring tunnels, that way they will stay on track.

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Court orders Elon Musk's X to block Sydney church stabbing footage

 

An Australian court has ordered billionaire Elon Musk's social media platform to block every user from seeing violent footage related to a Sydney church stabbing, not just block it for Australian audiences.

 

Amid political unity against X Corp's defiant stance to keep potentially harmful content online, the nation's internet cop launched the matter in the Federal Court on Monday evening.

 

During a hastily arranged hearing, a barrister for the eSafety Commissioner said the "graphic and violent" video remained online on X, formerly known as Twitter.

 

In a video that has been circulating, the alleged attacker referred to insults against "my Prophet" before the stabbing.

 

It would cause "irreparable harm" if it continued to circulate, lawyer Christopher Tran said.

 

The commissioner had ordered the removal of the footage but X's response was to block the video to Australian IP addresses, the court was told.

 

He submitted that X should shield the footage from all users, not just Australians.
 

Anticipating an argument about the United States' right to free speech, Tran said it appeared that right did not extend to depictions of violence.
 

Justice Geoffrey Kennett granted the interim order sought, suppressing the footage to all users on X until at least Wednesday afternoon.
 

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Australian PM calls Elon Musk an 'arrogant billionaire' in row over attack footage

 

Australia's leader has called Elon Musk an "arrogant billionaire" in an escalating feud over X's reluctance to remove footage of a church stabbing.

 

On Monday, an Australian court ordered Mr Musk's social media firm - formerly called Twitter - to hide videos of last week's attack in Sydney.

 

X previously said it would comply "pending a legal challenge".

 

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's criticism followed Mr Musk using a meme to accuse his government of censorship.

 

On Tuesday, Mr Albanese told ABC News that Mr Musk "thinks he's above the law but also above common decency".

 

Last week Australia's eSafety Commissioner, an independent regulator, threatened X and other social media companies with hefty fines if they did not remove videos of the stabbing at the Assyrian Christ the Good Shepherd church, which police have called a terror attack.

 

X has argued the order is "not within the scope of Australian law".

 

The commissioner sought a court injunction after saying it was clear that X was allowing users outside Australia to continue accessing footage.

 

"I find it extraordinary that X chose not to comply and are trying to argue their case," Mr Albanese told a press briefing.

 

In a subsequent series of online posts, Mr Musk wrote: "I'd like to take a moment to thank the PM for informing the public that this platform is the only truthful one." Another depicted a Wizard of Oz-style path to "freedom" leading to an X logo.

 

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