The Verge reports:
The latest court filing in Elon Musk’s battle to wrest back control of his Twitter account from the SEC includes a citation of the 2002 song Without Me by rapper Eminem. Yes, really. In the song, the rapper complains that “The FCC won’t let me be or let me be me so let me see/ They tried to shut me down.”
The Tesla CEO wants a judge to rescind a 2018 consent decree with the SEC that requires his tweets to be reviewed by an attorney before posting to Twitter. In the Tuesday court filing, Musk’s lawyers just substituted “SEC” for “FCC” to make the comparison
The consent decree came about after Musk tweeted in August 2018 that he had funding to take Tesla private at $420 per share.
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Elon Musk cites Eminem song in latest volley with the SEC https://t.co/P7SYUzqNbD pic.twitter.com/3KYjorlByJ
— The Verge (@verge) March 29, 2022
Elon Musk accused the SEC of “misconduct” as the Tesla CEO seeks to exit a 2018 deal with the regulator that limits his Twitter posts about the company https://t.co/TdgvuXgSSm
— Bloomberg (@business) March 29, 2022
Elon Musk likened himself to rapper Eminem in seeking to throw out his 2018 agreement with the SEC requiring Musk to obtain preapproval for his tweets https://t.co/qBF7TStOYh pic.twitter.com/YngtQv5MCC
— Reuters Legal (@ReutersLegal) March 29, 2022