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.”

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[–] [S] 167 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (2 children)

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.

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  • [–] 116 points 3 years ago (25 children)

    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.

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    [–] 67 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Free speech is for my group, not the others - hypocrite.

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    [–] 52 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Elon putting a spotlight over his own bad press

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    [–] 48 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    “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.

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  • [–] 35 points 3 years ago (5 children)

    To moderators: if the mega thread style doesn’t work, could we consider splitting out Musk-news to some other community? The topics comes rapidly and gain a lot of interest, but it’s such a narrow perspective on technology and just drowns other news.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    At least on Reddit I used RES filters to block all posts with certain people in the subjects. Cuts down on a lot of low-effort gossip from people hate-posting news.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago

    low-effort gossip from people hate-posting news

    Thank you for the terms. Couldn't find them anywhere. Made it hard to fit my comments in with communities not realizing this was the meta.

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    [–] 25 points 3 years ago

    "How dare you give me factual information about me to my face! I will sue you!" - eturd musk

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  • [–] 22 points 3 years ago

    More hate speech research groups, please!

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  • [–] 20 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    https://i.imgur.com/daCuG8G.jpg Seriously. He lies, cheats, and dchanges the rules tro suit himself. Let that sink in.

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  • [–] 18 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Musk about to find out what the "Streisand effect" is

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    [–] 8 points 3 years ago

    Assuming they're relying on established metrics... good luck with your trashfire-smokescreen of a libel case?

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago

    Its going to be hard to prove that he didn't Musk up twitter

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    [–] 4 points 3 years ago

    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

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