Elon Musk cites Eminem song in latest volley with the SEC
by Kim Lyons from The Verge - All Posts on (#5XMND)
Elon Musk | Photo by Asa Mathat The latest court filing in Elon Musk's battle to wrest back control of his Twitter account from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) includes a citation of the 2002 song Without Me by rapper Eminem. Yes, really (see the filing embedded below).
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." That's a reference to a 2002 penalty the Federal Communications Commission handed out to a Colorado radio station for playing Eminem's 2000 song The Real Slim Shady (after clutching its collective pearls for a bit, the FCC ultimately decided not to fine the radio station).
In the Tuesday court filing, Musk's lawyers just substituted SEC" for FCC" to make the...