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Anonymous group issues warning for Elon Musk for Bitcoin market manipulation

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Re: Anonymous group issues warning for Elon Musk for Bitcoin market manipulation

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> There are plenty of other companies working on space exploration and electric vehicles you are just the only CEO who has gained a cult following through sh*tposting and trolling the world on social media.

Clearly Musk is neither famous nor admired just because of “trolling”. He’s famous because of repeatedly making bold bets and pulling otherwise stagnant industries forward (like cars and rocketry). Both Tesla and SpaceX are hugely successful and are forcing everyone else to rethink their R&D. Other companies following Musk’s lead as latecomers doesn’t diminish Musk’s critical role in changing those industries.

> It appears that your quest to save the world is more rooted in a superiority and savior complex than it is in actual concern for humanity.

This is self serving, convenient speculation. It is a high school insult wrapped in bigger words.

> You may think you are the smartest person in the room, but now you have met your match. We are Anonymous! We are legion. Expect us.

This letter is ultimately a thinly veiled threat, and the actions undertaken by “hacktivists” are plainly illegal. I hope governments take notice and take action against this collective and others like Distributed Denial of Secrets.

Re: Anonymous group issues warning for Elon Musk for Bitcoin market manipulation

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Funny how when elon musk tweet send btc price up there wasn’t anyone crying about price manipulation. Maybe if one person can manipulate a nebulous product so much perhaps it had little value to begin with

Actually a lot of analysts had said that Elon’s bullish tweets were creating to much unsustainable upward momentum on the charts. It wasn’t welcome. Elon is a liability to markets as a whole and it’s not exclusive to crypto.

Re: Anonymous group issues warning for Elon Musk for Bitcoin market manipulation

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> There are plenty of other companies working on space exploration and electric vehicles you are just the only CEO who has gained a cult following through sh*tposting and trolling the world on social media. Clearly Musk is neither famous nor admired just because of “trolling”. He’s famous because of repeatedly making bold bets and pulling otherwise stagnant industries forward (like cars and rocketry). Both Tesla and…

Take action how? Anyone can order ddos and they use 100000s of hacked windows machines. What can govs do?

Re: Anonymous group issues warning for Elon Musk for Bitcoin market manipulation

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> There are plenty of other companies working on space exploration and electric vehicles you are just the only CEO who has gained a cult following through sh*tposting and trolling the world on social media. Clearly Musk is neither famous nor admired just because of “trolling”. He’s famous because of repeatedly making bold bets and pulling otherwise stagnant industries forward (like cars and rocketry). Both Tesla and…

You have to recognize the psychology beneath anti-Elon sentiment to understand where this is coming from. It is to a large extent political hatred from the far-left, and Anonymous is largely a left-activist group right now. Polls run in /r/EnoughMuskSpam confirm the demographic reality of the most staunch Elon haters.

Elon is symbolic of capitalism working. He creates cognitive dissonance as someone who applied capitalism (with subsidies that level the playing field versus oil externalities) effectively to environmental sustainability. He creates cognitive dissonance as a capitalist who created innovation (VTOL) that a public government funded agency (NASA) couldn't do by itself.

Elon is white, male, and wasn't overtly anti-Trump. Elon's ancestry is white South African.

Elon is rich.

Elon dislikes regulators.

Elon isn't afraid to criticize left-wing politicians in public.

These are the real reasons behind the strongest forms of Elon hate on the left that we see. The actual things he's done worthy of criticism (e.g arguably false advertising on Autopilot) factor in but I don't believe it is the real reason underneath it.

Re: Anonymous group issues warning for Elon Musk for Bitcoin market manipulation

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> There are plenty of other companies working on space exploration and electric vehicles you are just the only CEO who has gained a cult following through sh*tposting and trolling the world on social media. Clearly Musk is neither famous nor admired just because of “trolling”. He’s famous because of repeatedly making bold bets and pulling otherwise stagnant industries forward (like cars and rocketry). Both Tesla and…

>Clearly Musk is neither famous nor admired just because of “trolling”

Yes but actually no.

None of this nonsense would happened without the GME/AMC reddit scandal. But because he was with the good guys, nobody complained about it.

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