“恋童癖”诽谤案开庭，马斯克为自己辩护丨说英闻

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背景简介

特斯拉创办人马斯克（Elon Musk）12月3日在洛杉矶的一场庭审中为自己作证，此前他涉嫌诽谤英国洞穴探险家Vernon Unsworth。

Unsworth曾在去年7月帮助救出被困泰国山洞中的12名少年足球员和他们的教练。

当时马斯克和团队开发了一个小型潜水艇作为逃生舱。之后Unsworth在接受CNN采访时称马斯克的潜水艇不过是公关噱头，根本不可能发挥作用。

随后，马斯克在Twitter上称Unsworth为“pedo guy/恋童癖”，并在发给外媒记者的邮件中称其为“child rapist/儿童强奸犯”。2018年9月，Unsworth在美国对马斯克提起诉讼。

马斯克辩解称，“pedo guy”在他童年时生活的南非是一句常见的骂人话，意思是“令人毛骨悚然的老人”，并不构成诽谤。

马斯克还作证说，Unsworth的评论是“对自己善意帮助孩子的无端攻击”。“这是错误和侮辱，所以我反过来侮辱了他。”

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Albert说英闻

Today we are going to be talking about the story between two men, or more accurately, the insults between two men.

今天我们要聊的是两个男人之间的故事，准确地说是他们彼此之间的“攻击”。

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Tesla CEO Elon Musk made his first courtroom appearance on Tuesday as a defendant in a defamation case stemming from a 2018 tweet in which he called a man "pedo guy."

The target of Musk's insult was Vernon Unsworth, a British diver who took part in the 2018 rescue operation that freed 12 boys who were members of a soccer team and their coach after they became trapped inside a cave in Thailand.

  

When Elon Musk took the stand on Tuesday, the question was whether he defamed a British cave explorer by calling him a “pedo guy”, but at times it seemed the real issue was more fundamental – the fragility of male egos.

“This is a case about insults between two men,” said Musk’s attorney, Alex Spiro, in his opening statement to the jury in a federal courthouse in Los Angeles on the first day of the trial. 

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原文链接 ：

https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-pedo-guy-defamation-trial-testimony-day-one-2019-12

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/dec/04/elon-musk-pedo-guy-insult-was-not-classy-but-not-meant-literally

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