Posted on 07/31/2023 8:56:14 AM PDT by RandFan
An anti-hate speech campaign group has accused Elon Musk’s X Corp of intimidation after the owner of the rebranded social media site X, formerly known as Twitter, threatened legal action over the organisation’s research into hate speech on the platform.
The Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) has regularly conducted research into the platform’s content since it was bought last year by Musk and has produced work claiming publication of hateful material on the site has risen since the $44bn (£34.2bn) deal was completed.
Musk’s legal representative has written to CCDH and its chief executive, Imran Ahmed, accusing the organisation of posting articles making “inflammatory, outrageous, and false or misleading assertions about Twitter”. This month Musk announced that Twitter would be rebranded as “X”, under plans to turn the platform into a Chinese-style super-app.
The letter was sent by Alex Spiro of US law firm Quinn Emanuel Urquhart and Sullivan, one of Musk’s main lawyers who also sent a legal warning to Meta this month over its launch of Threads – the “Twitter killer” app.
The letter to CCDH also threatens legal action, stating that X is considering whether what it describes as CCDH’s “false and misleading claims” are actionable under the Lanham Act, a piece of US legislation that covers trademark law. It adds: “Please be advised that Twitter will employ any and all legal tools at its disposal to prevent false or misleading claims from harming its users, platform, or business.”
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
This is from the lefty Guardian worth bearing in mind..
Getting to hot in the kitchen for them.
Most anti hate groups are evil hate spouting. Think BLM, ADL, Southern Poverty
Who bankrolls “The Center for Countering Digital Hate”?
I’d like to know
They expect Musk to cave and give them the money like the democrats do to keep their organizations going
The leftists sure don’t like that intimidation can be a two-way street.
Nope.
However just the leftist term Hate-speech tells us something.
Speech was often associated with “freedom of speech” and integral part of the United States Bill of Rights.
Leftists wanted to criminalize encounters where people pushed back at minority groups abusing access to the public square. They called any pushback against these out of control aggressive groups “hate speech” and have tried, with some success, to have their special (beyond equal) protected status criminalize any pushback as hate speech.
So every time I hear to words “hate speech” I know it is a buzz word of the left like social-justice which has little to do with justice and a lot to do with progressive leftist aggression in the political arena.
Prog echo chamber...
“Popular topics
Here are CCDH’s latest trending areas of research, investigation, and advocacy.
Anti-vaxx misinformation
Antisemitism
Child safety
Climate change misinformation
STAR Framework
Through CCDH’s STAR Framework, we aim to establish key global standards for social media reform to ensure effectiveness, connectedness and consistency for a sector whose reach impacts people globally.
We need to reset our relationship with technology companies and collectively legislate to address the systems that amplify hate and dangerous misinformation around the globe. The STAR Framework draws on the most important elements for achieving this: Safety by Design, Transparency, Accountability and Responsibility.”
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Yep, just another pack of progs sticking their noses in everyone else’s business.
No one asked them, no one wanted them but there they are, here to keep you safe from “online hate and disinformation.”
Who decides what is and what is not “online hate and disinformation?”
Well, they do because they are sooo smart.
Just ask them...
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“Hate speech” is the context used only for the purpose of imposing tyranny on the world. They don’t get to decide what is “hate”, though.
Musk has game changing FU money....
He has responded.
Says they should save their words for the jury
The Guardian - read no further
Companies and Americans are not immune from slander laws.
Elon is doing the job the GOP refuses to do.
Protecting Americans and our country.
Maybe not, but as of now, they do. I'm glad that someone is finally calling out their BS as the wokesters definitely need to be slapped down. The GOP should be going after these phony Marxist orgs, but the "should be" list is getting awfully long for the GOP.
Musk will change his first name to “Malcolm.” Then what will they do?
Well I can personally attest to twatter purging conservatives again and doing it fast.
They’ve gone full Satanic Marxist.
I don’t know why Elon spent $44B only to turn it over to a registered known evil Marxist. It makes no sense at all.
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