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.”
Let’s ignore how retarded hate speech is as a concept for a second and think about this from a simple point of view. Organizations like CCDH, ADL, SPLC, and so on serve no value to society. They don’t offer products, services, and they don’t help anybody. Their job is justify their own existence, and they do so by publishing bullshit under the guise of morality. If you ever looked at their publications it always nonsense. It is either hyperpartisan bullshit that seeks to censor opposition, hyperbalized claims that aren’t sourced, or made up solutions that aren’t backed by any evidence. All these non profits are run the same. They’re run by fraudulent figures who make money by coercing institutions into donating to them in hopes of gaining credibility and avoiding a slander campaign against them. It’s basically a ponzi scheme with elements of extortion. Fuck them. As much as I hate Musk and Twitter, these parasitic organizations are 1000x worse.
I feel a SLAPP…
And they CLAPPED BACK. Love that.
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
Given the the CCDH is not the government, how is any of this about freedom of speech?
Musk uses that term in his own way - the “free speech absolutist” line came from him talking in reference to Twitter moderation. He consistently claims to allow his critics to say whatever they wish without consequences.
