Musk has long enjoyed the benefits of treating his empire as a conglomerate, without the costs of things like shared liability, doing things like casually reusing Tesla engineers in Twitter or sending Twitter's GPUs to X.ai, and daring shareholders to do anything about it. Now that he's gone to war with the establishment, he may find that the blind eye turned to these sorts of things in the past is no longer going to be so blind; it's not like that sort of bait-and-switch or diffusion of responsibility is novel, and the legal system is well-equipped to attack it in more criminal settings.
And Moraes seems to be showing that it works: similar to how Musk is deathly silent about the CCP, even Brazil has enough muscle to bring him to heel, so you can bet the EU is watching with great interest indeed.
Picking a fight he couldn't win with Moraes, and showing everyone else the way to deal with him, may turn out to have been his biggest mistake since perhaps signing the iron-clad deal to buy Twitter itself.
AFAIK from friends who have worked for him, he has a habit of quickly firing people who disagree with him which can cause all sorts of problems. No-one left to tell you that something might in fact be a bad idea.
It was actually worse than that. It was Tesla’s GPUs and the board refused to even address it. I was actually a bit surprised that something hasn’t come of that yet.
And Moraes seems to be showing that it works: similar to how Musk is deathly silent about the CCP, even Brazil has enough muscle to bring him to heel, so you can bet the EU is watching with great interest indeed.
Picking a fight he couldn't win with Moraes, and showing everyone else the way to deal with him, may turn out to have been his biggest mistake since perhaps signing the iron-clad deal to buy Twitter itself.