Wouldn't criticising Twitter's inefficient moderation be covered by "free speech"? It's censorship under the guise of preservation.
"Free expression is most important!!! (...except when you criticize us!)"
Even censorship is a form of free speech.
Example: I used to be homeless in Los Angeles. During that time, an Occupy Wall Street protester wrote on the ground in chalk "fuck the police".
A passerby was upset at this, and they poured water over the "fuck", erasing it.
Both the protestor and the passerby had expressed themselves in their own way.
-they said, from an account they "reclaimed" from a user with little warning and no compensation. So supportive of their users!
This dude went to so much trouble just to tweet as X.
They aren't tweets anymore. They are Xcrements.
From this dude they always were.
MDMA should send a cease & desist letter.
First off, California has anti slapp laws, secondly, if they get to it discovery is going to be HILARIOUS.
I'm betting that the clown prince has no idea what discovery means in that sense or he'd be running in the opposite direction.I imagine this is all just a bunch of bullshit to distract common folk. It's the #1 tactic billionaires and the wealthy love to pull.
In short, this is likely just propaganda. The lawsuit may not have any bearing or legitimacy whatsoever.
Space Karen could have paid the $1B penalty for backing out the Twitter deal but didn't and now he's tanked the company to the point it's worth far less than what he paid. Far more than $1B. What an absolute fucking idiot he is.
The real idiots are the ones lambasting the platform and its owner while simultaneously continuing to give the site traffic.
CCDH is well aware and put out a press release saying that they really look forward to discovery.
I love free speech so much I'll sue anyone who badmouths me!
I'm really happy that everyone just preemptively rejected hate speech here on Lemmy.
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Only if you ignore exploding heads…
Where’s this “half a billion” number coming from?
Bots, bots everywhere …
Probably total number of registered accounts ever. Including bots and all the people Musk banned.
At X we love Hate Speech. Also we consider the word "cisgender" hate speech, but in a bad way
Elon found the good hate speech! He IS a genius. 🤣
Oh wow, I bet Musky doesn't even see the OPEN contradiction taking place in this single, succinct statement. What a fucking moron...
Free speech is a dog whistle for hate speech. Now there's no contradiction if you read it like that.
First time I've heard of the Center for Countering Digital Hate. Thanks Elon. I wish I believed that he wanted to support free speech on XTwitter. But I don't. I think he just silenced CCDH for saying mean things against his thingie.
It’s fascinating to me to see the subtle way that Elon is using Twitter to lie for his gain. He makes claims about free speech and spins it so that conservatives feel emboldened while being a giant hypocrite and banning people, censoring tweets he doesn’t like, and spreading misinformation to prop himself up and put his competition down.
Then he moves to the reinforcement stages of these plans by doing shit like this. It’s likely that nothing will come out of this lawsuit but that doesn’t matter. For anyone that he’s manipulating, the headline and tweet are the only things that matter. They drive the narrative forward. They have little info that can be debunked or even evaluated in any meaningful way and, by the time anyone figures out it’s a bunch of empty nonsense, he’ll move on to the next headline and tweet.
It’s kinda genius. Evil, manipulative, dangerous genius and is slowly adding to the decline of the public’s ability to assess institutions and ideas.
It's not genius, it's just the same bullshit Trump has been doing this whole time...
It's really simple manipulation that any idiot can learn by simply not caring who they hurt on the way to perfecting the formula.
It's why narcissists are often so successful.
Google search "Twitter Hate Speech". Everyone and their mom has been reporting on the increase in hate speech at Twitter since Musk took over. Of course, he waits to sue until a small non-profit comes along, albeit one with a stellar reputation, whose resources he can exhaust in courts, which will count as a "win" in the eyes of his worshipers.
I can see it now, "Musk defeats liberal beta SJW cucks, a decisive blow for free speech."
There's no way the EFF wouldn't step in and help with legal bills if they needed to.
Lmao! Crimethinc and It’s Going Down are still banned. The only free speech allowed on that fascist’s website is literal Nazi speech.
Despite who's continued progress of safety? You fired your safety team!
Ahh what a man for free expression. There has never been a time where he has broke that /s
Twitter sided with the Turkish government and censored the accounts of political opponents ahead of a contentious election.
Twitter accused of censorship in India as it blocks Modi critics. Canadian politician, poet, an India MP and journalists are among 120 accounts that have been withheld
Very consistent with his claims /s
Remember when the left fought for freedom of speech? When the ACLU would go to court for the Klan's right to march, or for Nazis to be able to speak? When freedoms for everyone actually meant everyone, not just people we like.
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The downvotes here make me sad for freedom of speech and human rights. The left has abandoned free speech.
https://www.aclu.org/documents/aclu-history-taking-stand-free-speech-skokie
https://reason.com/2020/12/20/would-the-aclu-still-defend-nazis-right-to-march-in-skokie/
if I can't call people slurs or post child porn then free speech is dead
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Something something reach, said by some moron.
Musk is trying to block their freedom to monitor Twitter, largely it seems because it's pointing out the hate speech.
It's always "whataboutisms" with this type. Never an actual defense, just a deflection to something else.
Freedom from the government. They fought against censorship from the government. No one wants to hear their hateful shit be prioritized by an algo so that they get a megaphone on a private platform. Fuck. That. Noise.
Yeah, and look what happened when bigots were emboldened.
There's a difference between not allowing the government to stop private speech, and a private platform hosting stochastic terrorism and attacking anyone who tries to tell them it's wrong.
You can sue the government for infringing your rights. You can't sue (and win against) researchers who are literally just stating your actions and pointing to the immediate and obvious consequences.
Yeah! You're 100% right!!! Freedom for everyone! Just because they're from a small non-profit doesn't mean they're not entitled to the same protections everyone else enjoys. You, I, and everyone else have the right to say Twitter promotes hate speech and Elon is a racist bastard, and he shouldn't be able to stop that no matter how much money he has! Especially if they have the proof to back it up!
This is the sort of thing someone with a persecution complex would say.
The US government doesn't prohibit Nazi's from marching, nor does it silence them. So... What the fuck are you talking about?
The reason these types don't do this more is because most people fucking abhore them. Free speech doesn't mean freedom from consequences, or universal tolerance... It just means the government isn't allowed to silence their citizens.
There are exceptions to this when it comes to public safety (e.g. Yelling "FIRE" in a public theater), but overall the US holds firm on allowing people to say and do what they want.
In Musk's case, he doesn't support anything even remotely resembling free speech. He is constantly being called out for silencing people and organizations he disagrees with. He keeps trying to pretend he's not doing this by projecting his own brazen actions on the very people he's attacking. It's a very Trump-esque technique, and it can be very effective among dumb and impressionable people.
The US government doesn’t prohibit Nazi’s from marching, nor does it silence them.
https://www.aclu.org/documents/aclu-history-taking-stand-free-speech-skokie
https://reason.com/2020/12/20/would-the-aclu-still-defend-nazis-right-to-march-in-skokie/
To be tolerant you have to intolerante the intolerant.
Freedom of speech! Unless you criticize the governments of Turkey or India. Or give out public information about where Musk's private plane is parked or flying. Or report on that account giving out that information. Or report on the hate speech on Twitter.
Other than that, Musk is entirely in favor of freedom of speech! Until he can come up with another exception.
I don't recall the ACLU ever fighting to compel a private business to promote or facilitate hate speech.
