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.
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.
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.
It is genius because of how simple it is. Trump may not get away with it but that’s because he was President. Elon can’t be President so the scrutiny on him will be much lower.
Remember before all the Obama birth certificate nonsense, there were some republicans who wanted to relax the "natural born" citizenship requirements so Schwarzenegger could run for president? I won't be surprised if they start floating that one again.
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.
Lmao! Crimethinc and It’s Going Down are still banned. The only free speech allowed on that fascist’s website is literal Nazi speech.
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.
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
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