Elon Musk is a security risk
Al JazeeraLike other absurdly rich people, Musk wants privacy and security for the elite and control and subjugation for the poor. Once upon a time, the world’s richest person – Elon Musk, the megalomaniacal CEO of rocket company SpaceX and the officially self-branded “Technoking” of Tesla – endeavoured to bribe 19-year-old Florida college freshman Jack Sweeney with $5,000 to cease operation of the Twitter account @ElonJet, which tracks Musk’s private jet using publicly available data. Alleging that the account posed a “security risk”, Musk went on in characteristically mature fashion to block Sweeney on Twitter. Speaking of “security”, this is the same Musk whose not-so-self-driving Tesla cars have been known to come equipped with “Insane Mode” and “Ludicrous Mode” – and whose Autopilot software has “been involved in an alarming number of crashes with parked emergency vehicles, resulting in injuries and death”, as Time magazine admitted in its mostly obsequious explanation for choosing Musk as Person of the Year for 2021. In other “security risks”, meanwhile, Musk reopened one of his California factories in the middle of the pandemic, in defiance of local orders, and has fervently pushed vaccine scepticism.