Professional troll Elon Musk unremarkably leverages his shitposting artistry toward rather unintelligent , rightwing ends but , once in great awhile , he really puts his trollish powers to estimable use . Such was the lawsuit this weekend , when the Tesla CEO used his own website , X , to go after another tech billionaire who has been impeach of hogging a public beach in California .
Vinod Khosla , the wealthy co - founder of Sun Microsystems , has been in a 15 - plus - twelvemonth legal battleover Martins Beach , a scenic bit along the San Mateo Coast that has suffered disceptation thanks to the billionaire ’s meddling . Back in 2008 , Khosla bought up properties surrounding the beach and after attempted to shut off public admittance to the route that allows ledger entry to it . More recently , he has ( sometimes ) get out the gate to the beach open andcharged mass to park nearby . Khosla has been sue multiple times by conservation and surfer groups , who impeach him ofattempting to privatize a public beach .
On Sunday , Musk trail Khosla in a tweet that involved what appears to have been an AI - return image of a beach sign that reads : “ No plebs allowed . ” It ’s not all clear why Musk decided to do this , although it seems to have had something to do with the two humankind ’s political differences .
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Wow , so crazy that@vkhoslaput this star sign on a public beachpic.twitter.com/ln46n07kvw
— Elon Musk ( @elonmusk)September 21 , 2024
This clearly pissed Khosla off , because he proceed to go off on Musk in a series of tweet . “ You owe me an apology for spreading falsehood , ” Khosla stake . “ I think this post of yours needs a community comment for being a fallacious photo . I have never put up this sign or anything even remotely like this . I presume it is AI generated but you may verify that . It will help X if we can have rational debate and not get personal ( I can throw personal truth at you unlike your mistaken pic ) . ”
Musk , ever the asshole , replied : “ Sorry I made a planetary house about you curb access to a public beach . That was so super terrible . Please forgive me . ” He appended a supplicant emoji to the tweet .
“ Vinod says we should send tens of 1000 of unvetted migrator to small towns throughout America , but he did n’t even require to let the public walk on his beach … I ’m throwing a political party on Vinod ’s beach , ” Musk continued as he slow lost steam . “ For cuisine , I ’m thinking BBQ . ”
Gizmodo reached out to Khosla for comment .
The Mercury Newsreports thatafter bribe coastal place surrounding Martins Beach in 2008 , Khosla lock the gate leading to the public beach , charter guard , and posted no trespassing polarity . In 2020 , he was process by California Coastal Commission , a public agency , which reason that the populace had a right to use the route that conduct to the beach . He has also been litigate successfullyby a surfboarding mathematical group . In his own manifest effort to spread falsification , Khosla has referred to the Coastal Commissionas a bunch of “ commies . ”
CaliforniaElon MuskSun MicrosystemsVinod Khosla
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