Elon Musk Quotes Eminem In Filing Against The SEC

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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