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
Please, please do that. I can’t wait to see the discovery portion of the trial
Yes, let’s see the data
I was just going to say, wouldn’t they have to disprove the findings to win?
Even better, the emails from Musk about this. Those would be a bombshell.
Elon used to love saying he was a Free Speech Absolutist, but once again that only extends to speech he likes.
For a company that claims to be desperate to cut costs they sure do have a lot of money for frivolous lawsuits…
This is a great example of a SLAPP suit
The man-child billionaire says he is not for censorship, while using the judicial system to censor.
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
We don’t need to call it X or even the platform formerly known as Twitter. It’s just Twitter.
It’s Brand X. It’s an appropriate name.
The foodfight paralels are uncanny, musk himself looks like a character from that movie.
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I think Elon’s rebranding from “twitter” to “X, The Social Media Platform Formerly Known As Twitter” was really smart. You know what, I am gonna go XTSMPFKAST-eet that right now! Obviously the branding was the weakest part of the product he bought!
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?
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 absolutist.
Free speech abolitionist
Free speech, but until something goes wrong. Then it’s totalitarian government
Driving ur attention to here:
X is a free public service funded largely by advertisers.
X aware that the CCDH gained access to X’s data without Brandwatch’s authorization,
How did they get the data? By visiting the public website. Unless browsing Ten is illegal that’s a baseless claim.
I mean, you can’t really view anything on Brand X anymore without a login.
EDIT: Looks like they brought back non-logged-in feed viewing, for now at least. They seem to go back and forth on that pretty frequently.
Musk should sue himself then. Seems like he has done the most to drive away advertisers.
“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.