An Australian business is the latest in an ever-growing list of companies taking Elon Musk's Twitter to court over alleged unpaid bills after the US billionaire paid $US44 billion for the social media platform last year.
They can mean cash flow problems. In Musk's case, it may just be leverage. Just like Trump, he knows that he's the bigger guy, when dealing with contractors. They can swallow the loss or fight it in court.
If it's planned, he should be prosecuted for theft, however, as always, it's considered a civil matter and he's protected by the corporate veil.
If he ever goes to prison we should let him keep a connection to the internet so he can continue to embarrass himself for our amusement, sorta like Andrew Tate when he got people from the outside to compose increasingly unhinged tweets for him (shout out to when he claimed he was fighting ghosts in his cell, because he was being haunted???).
It does feel a little like “capture and kill” by Musk. Previous Twitter management wasn’t great, but the outsized influence of the platform has been well noted. It’s place in organising against dictatorships and preventing censorship (previously) has also been probably a net positive. All of that is gone with Musk at ENORMOUS cost.