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Twitter Sues Hate-Speech Research Group Over Claims That Hateful, Racist Content Has Proliferated Under Musk’s Ownership (variety.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/technology

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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.”

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[–] kameecoding 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Musk about to find out what the "Streisand effect" is

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, seriously. Anyone who pays attention know that the new Twitter with the new X might as well have been a Swastika or the cross of a Confederate flag, so what the research group is claiming to have data on isn't really news at all.

But him making a lawsuit out of it makes it much more likely that this will be reported and mentioned across most of the western world, your parents might even hear about it.

[–] punseye 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Just a correction, Hitler and Nazi party never used Swastika, the original name of the symbol was "Hakenkreuz" in German.

There is no mention of the word "Swastika" in any of the writings and speeches of the Nazi party.

Hakenkreuz was wrongly translated to Swastika when the translation was carried out in English from German.

The correct translation of Hakenkreuz in English would be "Hooked Cross".

Swastika is a similar looking sacred Hindu and Buddhist symbol, maybe because of it's similarity this error occurred and it went unchallenged in international forums as Hindus and Buddhists didn't even know how their sacred symbol was misappropriated and misrepresented because of mistranslation.