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Fraud is criminal behavior. Whether your agree what Musk did is fraud is immaterial; the charges were clear, as was his $40M settlement.


HN is not a court room that's why I'm having a hard time understanding why language like that is becoming more and more common place here. Maybe it has something to do with many prominent startup CEOs being lawyers, Cloudflare CEO comes to mind.

Can we keep HN spirit the same? The same spirit that values geeks, rewards going against the grain and celebrates individuals not based on how society judges them, but on how intrinsically interesting and beneficial their work is to humanity.




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