Twitter filed a lawsuit against the Center for Countering Digital Hate. “Despite our continued progress, the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) and its backers have been actively working to assert false and misleading claims encouraging advertisers to pause investment on the platform. X is a free public service funded largely by advertisers. Through the CCDH’s scare campaign and its ongoing pressure on brands to prevent the public’s access to free expression, the CCDH is actively working to prevent public dialogue,” the company said in a blog post Monday.
“Musk and his legal team, led by attorney Alex Spiro at Quinn Emanuel, have engaged in an aggressive campaign to intimidate, bully, and silence CCDH,” the organization said in a statement released Monday. “While Elon Musk proclaims to be a ‘free speech absolutist,’ his actions against CCDH show the lengths he will go to silence those who seek to hold him to account.”
Free speech is for my group, not the others - hypocrite.
You can write Musk instead of hypocrite. Synonyms are fine.
My comment got deleted in this post lol
https://i.imgur.com/daCuG8G.jpg Seriously. He lies, cheats, and dchanges the rules tro suit himself. Let that sink in.
So just your average rich republican
Musk about to find out what the “Streisand effect” is
Yeah, seriously. Anyone who pays attention know that the new Twitter with the new X might as well have been a Swastika or the cross of a Confederate flag, so what the research group is claiming to have data on isn’t really news at all.
But him making a lawsuit out of it makes it much more likely that this will be reported and mentioned across most of the western world, your parents might even hear about it.
Just a correction, Hitler and Nazi party never used Swastika, the original name of the symbol was “Hakenkreuz” in German.
There is no mention of the word “Swastika” in any of the writings and speeches of the Nazi party.
Hakenkreuz was wrongly translated to Swastika when the translation was carried out in English from German.
The correct translation of Hakenkreuz in English would be “Hooked Cross”.
Swastika is a similar looking sacred Hindu and Buddhist symbol, maybe because of it’s similarity this error occurred and it went unchallenged in international forums as Hindus and Buddhists didn’t even know how their sacred symbol was misappropriated and misrepresented because of mistranslation.
“How dare you give me factual information about me to my face! I will sue you!” - eturd musk
The CCDH do not have the resources to fight Twitter alone. This is clearly an attempt to scare them into silence with legal fees.
Those who wish may donate here.
I feel a SLAPP…
More hate speech research groups, please!
And they CLAPPED BACK. Love that.
There was just an interesting about Musks Lawyer, Spiro, mentioned in the quote.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/07/31/how-alex-spiro-keeps-the-rich-and-famous-above-the-law
It blows my mind how CEO’s can make such obviously shortsighted and stupid decisions.
Elon is elonning Twitter’s reputation faster and faster every day.
I mean the alternative possibility is that people dislike Elon and are trying to inflate small things into big ones.
Not that I don’t actually suspect hate speech hasn’t increased on his platform since he fired most of the staff anyway, but a company does have the right to defend itself legally against accusations and decide it in court.
It’s like if you made a company and I had a claim that you were eating babies during lunch. Your defense against me would be a lawsuit in court.
Ok, but if you fire the team responsible for making sure no babies are consumed, and your company cafeteria menu suddenly has a section called All Baby All Day, the only people who will defend you are probably also eating babies at home.
Given the the CCDH is not the government, how is any of this about freedom of speech?
Musk uses that term in his own way - the “free speech absolutist” line came from him talking in reference to Twitter moderation. He consistently claims to allow his critics to say whatever they wish without consequences.
“Your honor, my defense rests on one simple principle: you can’t defame the dead. Elon Musk killed Twitter last week. That is all.”
But on a serious note, Elon is a fucking baby however these cases typically get tossed out basically instantly for being baseless. His intent is likely to make future researchers or just non-anonymous people everywhere never speak the MEAN truth about his stupidity or suffer bullshit law suits. He has the infinite money, it’s not like he cares if a court orders he pay all the fees for wasting time. Normal people can’t accept that risk though or the time off work to deal with it. Basically, he should face imprisonment for a long fucking time to deter HIM from this bullshit. Or, I dunno, seize all his ill gotten capital, I dunno.
It’s a game of stupid chicken, because the moment someone actually goes to court instead of settling he’s just given them a platform to prove how much of a dipshit he is.
I still want to see an example of hate speech before I make my judgement. Could be actual nazi shit, could be counting nonsense.
You could, ya know, look it up.
That didn’t come up in my google search. Is it just me, or is google just not good these days?
