Twitter is threatening legal action against the Center for Countering Digital Hate, a nonprofit that researches hate speech and content moderation on social media platforms.
The letter from Twitter’s lawyers alleges that CCDH’s research publications are intended to ‘harm Twitter’s business by driving advertisers away from the platform with incendiary claims.’
This is a pretty bold move from Twitter, especially considering that CCDH is a well-respected organization that has been doing this kind of research for years. And it’s especially ironic coming from Elon Musk, who has said that he’s a ‘free speech absolutist.’
But Musk has also shown that he’s sensitive to criticism, so it’s not surprising that he’s taking this kind of action against CCDH
“How dare you use well researched facts to state obvious facts that I don’t like to hear about!” - karen musk
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And I’m glad he can’t destroy “twitter” anymore
There’s always tomorrow, I’m sure he’ll manage to fully sink it…
It’s like he’s trying to sink it but idk, It’s either not intentional and he’s a dumb cunt, or it’s completely intentional and he’s still a dumb cunt.
I don’t understand the theory that he is trying to destroy twitter. What purpose would that serve? Some people say “Oh the Saudis Could have paid him to do it” why not just simply close the site?
For a company that claims to be desperate to cut costs they sure do have a lot of money for frivolous lawsuits…
Wasn’t he all about free speech and even against censorship?
“ I think if you go down the censorship route, it’s only a matter of time before censorship is turned upon you.” -musk
free speech until his interests aren’t endangered
Free speech is still there.
Yes, for him whose views align with his!
Source he censored other views?
https://www.vice.com/en/article/88xqnv/elon-musk-censors-twitter-in-turkey
If you don’t trust Vice, there’s a tweet in that article from an official Twitter account saying they will censor tweets.
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He literally defended himself bowing to government censorship a few months ago. Keep up.
I’m loving these colourful thread bars on the left hand side.
If they go to court, wouldn’t the court make them prove that the claim was false or defamation? And if CCDH can prove that it’s not false or defamation then now it’s legal record that hate speech has increased since the takeover? This all seems ok with me.
In a defamation lawsuit, it would not be X that had to prove it was a lie. It would be CCDH that had to prove it had evidence for their claims (notice that it does not need to be true, only has to be reasonable for CCDH to believe it is true based on evidence they had).
That’s not how the American court system works.
A company like Twitter can bleed the CCDH dry and just walk away with a frivolous lawsuit and a minor (insignificant) penalty.
And the way that works is not by accident.
Free speech absolutist.
Fee speech absolutist
Free speech abolitionist
I wonder how he’ll Musk things up this time?
Stop giving Musk free publicity. Don’t post or upvote Musk spam.
Edit Not posting Musk spam on Lemmy does not mean there’s no accountability. What Musk wants is for idiots like you to keep upvoting his daily bullshit and doing his marketing for free.
So let them operate under the radar and avoid any and all accountability? I think that might be exactly what Musk wants.
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Isn’t that what you’re doing right now? If no one can post even an opinion against it, you’re clearly the hypocrite to say not them but it’s entirely ok for you to do it
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Some apps have a word filter you could use. What i learned from this post is that i will make a donation to the researchers when i can afford it
Evidence based documentation is going to be hard to win against, unless the plan is just drag them through legal proceedings until they can’t afford it. The american dream.
Yes, free speech and evidence based documentation will be fine, Musk won’t be able to afford prolongued legal proceedings. American dream indeed.
Wouldn’t surprise me if in this case enough people would donate. Enough people are sick of Musk at this point.
So Twitter is Prince now, got it.
Here is Twitter’s statement about it: https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2023/a-new-era-of-transparency-for-twitter1
First three paragraphs: “everyone should be able to express themselves”
Rest of the post: “we don’t like what these researchers are saying, so we’ll do what’s possible to make sure those people aren’t able to express themselves”
Sue everyone you don’t like. That’s the thin-skinned, narcissistic billionaire way.
Doesn’t matter if they’re right or wrong, pile up the costs and they’ll all cave in.
This is a great example of a SLAPP suit
He is the forefront of apartheid theory and sees anyone not espousing it a threat to his existence.
“Free speech for me, not for thee”. God, I’m THIS close to deleting my account there and just migrating back to Tumblr and bluesky. There are just too many users I love that haven’t moved anywhere else yet.
Learn to be okay missing out on that content
Convince some of them to move out, too. Or at least start using alternatives, like Mastodon (or any of the dozen services that interact with it, like Akkoma and Soapbox). The number of servers is mind boggling.
Try Mastodon. Remember to follow hashtags.
mastodon seems a valid alternative but I find it empty in comparison. I will try to follow hastags, maybe it is the right way to have good content
I’m not really comfortable with how Mastodon works. Bluesky really seems like a very comfy, cool environment and I really like the feeds function. And I mean, Tumblr was always perfect for me anyway.
