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Musk’s X posts on ketamine, Putin spur release of his security clearances (arstechnica.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago by bytesonbike@discuss.online to c/enoughmuskspam@lemmy.world

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Elon Musk's social media posts helped The New York Times win its fight to secure a list detailing the billionaire's top-secret security clearances after a US agency tried to block the disclosures by claiming that Musk had a right to privacy.

In an opinion issued Wednesday, US District Judge Denise Cote said that in publicly discussing his security clearances on X—as well as his drug use and foreign contacts—Musk tipped the balance so that the public's substantial interest in the list the NYT sought clearly outweighed "any privacy interest" Musk may have.

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[–] bloup@lemmy.sdf.org 31 points 2 weeks ago

Any regular person who needs security clearance for work feels like they are walking on eggshells if they smoked weed in the past two years when they apply for it and are technically committing a federal crime if they haven’t abstained from basically everything besides nicotine and alcohol. Elon Musk getting TS while talking about recreational drug use on twitter, he might as well be rubbing his penis on the face of every American, but this country is so cucked every citizen might as well be begging for the next turn.

[–] mhague@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Why would we give security clearance to wealthy people?

They can literally move where they please and nothing would affect them. There's no incentive for them to be loyal. Is it our bribe? The public giving their ego a good stroking?

Musk could move 50 fucking times this year and then build his own country and then finance a personal military, but let's give him access to our secrets.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

What does any of this have to do with moving?

[–] hitmyspot@aussie.zone 1 points 2 weeks ago

They are not part of the social contract that makes us citizens. They are citizens of the world, not any country. Heck, musk is an illegal immigrant from South Africa. Murdoch is an ex Australian. Their loyalty is to money and power, not any country.

[–] ssorbom@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

It's about God damn time. They have known about these problems for years. The travesty of this story is that it has taken this long.