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Judge mocks X for “vapid” argument in Musk’s hate speech lawsuit
(arstechnica.com)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Ignoring that researching how toxic a toxic shithole is is very clearly not "hacking" and reporting it is first amendment protected speech, so knowing financial harm is coming shouldn't be relevant in any way:
What the actual fuck is wrong with this dude?
My guess is he threw a tantrum and yelled at his lawyers to do something about it, and it's the best they came up with.
If you're a defense attorney, you need to be entitled to any argument no matter how tenuous or ridiculous in order to have due process of law. You can't be scared an argument will get you in trouble.
But there needs to be a line for a plaintiff where you at minimum get suspended from any sort of practice of law for a serious length of time for absurdly frivolous arguments, and it needs to be way before this.