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У гражданина, похоже, кукушечка совсем откуковала. Или пиарка сломалась.
https://www.ft.com/content/865bc7b0-8860-11e8-bf9e-8771d5404543
Elon Musk’s mounting displays of public irritation risked a serious backlash on Sunday, as he resorted to personal abuse on Twitter against one of the divers involved in the Thailand cave rescue.
The entrepreneur behind Tesla and SpaceX addressed the diver directly in a tweet as “pedo guy”, a common abbreviation for a paedophile. It was his most strident comment in weeks of lashing out, bringing accusations that he has misused his powerful position as one of Twitter’s most widely followed personalities in order to silence critics.
Mr Musk presented no evidence to support his claims.
The tweet followed a television interview in which Vern Unsworth, a British diver who lives in Thailand, called Mr Musk’s attempts to help in the rescue effort a “PR stunt”.
Mr Musk had instructed his engineers to turn a large canister into an improvised submarine that could be used to ferry the children trapped by rising water in the cave complex. He also visited the site last week, though the rescue capsule was not used and the children were rescued by divers.
Asked by reporters what he thought of Mr Musk’s submarine idea, Mr Unsworth said: “He can stick his submarine where it hurts.” He added that it “just had absolutely no chance of working”, since sharp turns in the caves would have blocked the rigid canister.
Mr Musk responded on Twitter: “Never saw this British expat guy who lives in Thailand (sus) at any point when we were in the caves.”
He then challenged Mr Unsworth to produce a video to prove his claim, before writing: “You know what, don’t bother showing the video. We will make one of the mini-sub/pod going all the way to Cave 5 no problemo. Sorry pedo guy, you really did ask for it.”
Twitter’s policy against abuse forbids behaviour that “harasses, intimidates, or uses fear to silence another user’s voice”, though it maintains wide latitude to interpret how the rule is applied. In a standard response, Twitter said its rules “apply to everyone” who uses the service and that “if a violation is found, action should be taken.”
Mr Musk’s attacks on critics have become increasingly outspoken in recent weeks as pressure on him has mounted over production delays at Tesla. With 22.3m followers, his comments are widely seen and sometimes provoke fans into joining the attacks, as happened after a recent tirade against a female journalist he accused of paying for information from a former Tesla employee.
Или он первый раз столкнулся с тем, что его не встречают "громкими продолжительными переходящими в овацию"? Словом реакция на невосторженное отражение его присутствия в пещере какая-то истерическая.
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