Won't someone think of the hate speech!?

"Free expression is most important!!! (...except when you criticize us!)"

Even censorship is a form of free speech.

Example: I used to be homeless in Los Angeles. During that time, an Occupy Wall Street protester wrote on the ground in chalk "fuck the police".

A passerby was upset at this, and they poured water over the "fuck", erasing it.

Both the protestor and the passerby had expressed themselves in their own way.

They aren't tweets anymore. They are Xcrements.

MDMA should send a cease & desist letter.

I imagine this is all just a bunch of bullshit to distract common folk. It's the #1 tactic billionaires and the wealthy love to pull.

In short, this is likely just propaganda. The lawsuit may not have any bearing or legitimacy whatsoever.

Space Karen could have paid the $1B penalty for backing out the Twitter deal but didn't and now he's tanked the company to the point it's worth far less than what he paid. Far more than $1B. What an absolute fucking idiot he is.

CCDH is well aware and put out a press release saying that they really look forward to discovery.

Only if you ignore exploding heads…

Bots, bots everywhere …

Probably total number of registered accounts ever. Including bots and all the people Musk banned.

Elon found the good hate speech! He IS a genius. 🤣

Free speech is a dog whistle for hate speech. Now there's no contradiction if you read it like that.

It's not genius, it's just the same bullshit Trump has been doing this whole time...

It's really simple manipulation that any idiot can learn by simply not caring who they hurt on the way to perfecting the formula.

It's why narcissists are often so successful.

There's no way the EFF wouldn't step in and help with legal bills if they needed to.

if I can't call people slurs or post child porn then free speech is dead

🙄

Something something reach, said by some moron.

Musk is trying to block their freedom to monitor Twitter, largely it seems because it's pointing out the hate speech.

It's always "whataboutisms" with this type. Never an actual defense, just a deflection to something else.

Freedom from the government. They fought against censorship from the government. No one wants to hear their hateful shit be prioritized by an algo so that they get a megaphone on a private platform. Fuck. That. Noise.

Yeah, and look what happened when bigots were emboldened.

There's a difference between not allowing the government to stop private speech, and a private platform hosting stochastic terrorism and attacking anyone who tries to tell them it's wrong.

You can sue the government for infringing your rights. You can't sue (and win against) researchers who are literally just stating your actions and pointing to the immediate and obvious consequences.

This is the sort of thing someone with a persecution complex would say.

Yeah! You're 100% right!!! Freedom for everyone! Just because they're from a small non-profit doesn't mean they're not entitled to the same protections everyone else enjoys. You, I, and everyone else have the right to say Twitter promotes hate speech and Elon is a racist bastard, and he shouldn't be able to stop that no matter how much money he has! Especially if they have the proof to back it up!

The US government doesn't prohibit Nazi's from marching, nor does it silence them. So... What the fuck are you talking about?

The reason these types don't do this more is because most people fucking abhore them. Free speech doesn't mean freedom from consequences, or universal tolerance... It just means the government isn't allowed to silence their citizens.

There are exceptions to this when it comes to public safety (e.g. Yelling "FIRE" in a public theater), but overall the US holds firm on allowing people to say and do what they want.

In Musk's case, he doesn't support anything even remotely resembling free speech. He is constantly being called out for silencing people and organizations he disagrees with. He keeps trying to pretend he's not doing this by projecting his own brazen actions on the very people he's attacking. It's a very Trump-esque technique, and it can be very effective among dumb and impressionable people.

To be tolerant you have to intolerante the intolerant.

Freedom of speech! Unless you criticize the governments of Turkey or India. Or give out public information about where Musk's private plane is parked or flying. Or report on that account giving out that information. Or report on the hate speech on Twitter.

Other than that, Musk is entirely in favor of freedom of speech! Until he can come up with another exception.

I don't recall the ACLU ever fighting to compel a private business to promote or facilitate hate speech.