Method 05 · The Methods Playbook
Stated position vs. legal position
Arguing one rule in public while a court filing by the same party argues the opposite — visible only when you read both.
Every example below is traced to a primary filing or named report — the source links are the point. This documents a pattern of conduct; it makes no claim about motive or coordination. Read the sources and judge for yourself.
Musk's central legal argument in suing Altman is that AI research of this magnitude should be conducted as a nonprofit, open-source public good, and that pivoting to a closed for-profit str…
Exxon's defense to state-level consumer-protection suits is that climate science was genuinely uncertain when it told the public it was uncertain — i.e., a good-faith reading of the science…
The same ranking-and-amplification system is described as 'protected editorial speech' when Meta wants to defeat must-carry laws, and as 'neutral conduit conduct of an interactive computer…
OpenAI's fair-use defense in the NYT case turns on the principle that ingesting copyrighted material to train a derivative system that competes with the original is non-infringing because o…
In Trump v. Thompson, Trump's position was that executive privilege over presidential records is an enduring protection that a successor cannot waive. In the SCOTUS immunity case, the same…
Palantir's commercial-litigation posture is that its software is so proprietary and confidential that even a federal court cannot compel meaningful disclosure of how its ranking and matchin…
Boeing the corporation pleaded guilty to defrauding the FAA — admitting, in its corporate capacity, that the criminal acts occurred. In the parallel individual prosecution of the only Boein…
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