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>... why is it bad to let people know?

It's not, as long as you're not doing it to specifically target one company or be a dick about it. Is he going to label his own companies with the same thing?

>According to a Los Angeles Times investigation, Musk's companies had received an estimated $4.9 billion in government support by 2015, and they've gotten more since.[1]

[1]https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-list-government-su...



Musk doesn’t own a media company.


Tesla, a government-funded company, has the ability to remotely disable your car. Surely they'd be happy to do this at the government's request, no? Locking your car mid-drive and rerouting you using FSD because you said something the government didn't like?

SpaceX, a government-funded company, has the ability to put all kinds of invasive, espionage-focused payloads into space.

The point is, if we're going to insinuate that NPR is doing the bidding of the US government simply because a portion (however large or small) of the money they receive comes from the government, then we can insinuate the same kind of sentiment towards Musk's companies.

If you think it's important to know that a media company takes government money, why wouldn't it be important to know if other companies in other industries are similarly connected?




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