Elon Musk to face trial over ‘pedo guy’ tweets, court denies

"Unsworth sued Musk in 2018 after the pair were locked in a heated back-and-forth for weeks. The altercation erupted after Unsworth criticized Musk’s efforts to send a submarine to help rescue the team from a cave in Thailand where they were trapped. In response, Musk called Unsworth a “pedo guy” on Twitter and a “child rapist” in an email to a BuzzFeed reporter."

It was actually fairly hilarious, at the time, which I think is okay to say now since things are going so well for Unsworth in the lawsuit, and the bar his attorney(s) will have to meet seems very attainable:

"Since the judge ruled Unsworth is a private figure, Unsworth will have a lower burden of proof in his defamation claims. Unsworth has to prove only that Musk was negligent for failing to check that statements made in his tweets were true, instead of proving Musk acted with actual malice, or publishing statements he knew to be false."

So yeah, Musk very publicly floated the idea, and I believe even preliminary plans, for a mini-submarine that rescuers would use to get through the caverns to the children and in which the children could be taken back to safety. Unsworth, the expert rescuer who had been brought in to advise and basically head up the rescue, responded that while it sounded nice it wasn't remotely feasible as grown men with minimal gear could barely fit through the spaces in the rock to get to the children, let alone an inflexible metal tube. So Musk went off.

I hope Unsworth gets whatever he's asking.