A nonprofit organization that researches links between social media, hate and extremism has been threatened with a lawsuit by X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter.
StarServal ( @StarServal@kbin.social ) 21•11 months agoWhat a little piss baby.
nicetriangle ( @nicetriangle@kbin.social ) 11•11 months agoTotal piss baby energy
skellener ( @skellener@kbin.social ) 15•11 months agoExactly what a fascist would do.
The Cuuuuube ( @Cube6392@beehaw.org ) 14•11 months ago“How dare those researchers gather data and then publish factual analysis of that data”
MrMamiya ( @MrMamiya@feddit.de ) 14•11 months agoThis guy is single-handedly both showing us the rich didn’t earn anything by being anything other than lucky, and the playbook they use to keep that fact quiet.
Gordon_Freeman ( @Gordon_Freeman@kbin.social ) 11•11 months agoI love the smell of free speech in the morning
melroy ( @melroy@kbin.melroy.org ) 6•11 months agoOnly Elon decides what is free speech and what is not.
Pons_Aelius ( @Pons_Aelius@kbin.social ) 5•11 months agoAnother day, another shocking thing EM has done.
Almost as if it is all deliberate to keep his name constantly in the news cycle…
DeltaTangoLima ( @DeltaTangoLima@reddrefuge.com ) English3•11 months agoAh, a great example of the Streisand Effect in action. If this hadn’t have made the news, I’d never have known about this research. Fantastic!
JillyB ( @JillyB@beehaw.org ) English1•11 months agoI don’t think it’s about PR. I think it’s about sending a message that you’ll be sued if you look too heavily into things.
DeltaTangoLima ( @DeltaTangoLima@reddrefuge.com ) English1•11 months ago??? Not sure I catch your meaning there - I never mentioned PR.
JillyB ( @JillyB@beehaw.org ) English1•11 months agoI mean that he doesn’t care if people know. If anything, I think he wants people to know so they feel as if they can’t speak out about him without legal repercussions.
DeltaTangoLima ( @DeltaTangoLima@reddrefuge.com ) English1•11 months agoAh, gotcha. Yeah, probably. He’s certainly acting like a buffoon who doesn’t care what people think. I think that’s actually a sign of a very insecure person, the way he rattles his sabre all the time…
Echo Dot ( @echodot@feddit.uk ) 1•11 months agoSue them? On what grounds?
They would only be looking at comments that are publicly visible. You might as well argue that people shouldn’t research graffiti scrolled on walls.
snownyte ( @snownyte@kbin.social ) 1•11 months agoDeliciously ironic.
zephyrvs ( @zephyrvs@lemmy.ml ) 1•11 months agoI don’t know. I dislike Musk as much as anyone but this NGO isn’t transparent about their funding and the people involved are way too involved in shitty UK think tanks and politics to not consider them as part of a campaign to reign in on actual free speech in the name of “protecting people from harm”.
Stuff like that should be grass roots and not a “yeah we’re funded by private philanthropist institutions but we don’t disclosure which ones” op.
Nothing about these people feels legit.
trevron ( @trevron@beehaw.org ) 4•11 months agoBut does it really matter if they provide real evidence that backs up their research?
zephyrvs ( @zephyrvs@lemmy.ml ) 4•11 months agoYes, because you can still cherry pick results, studies, sources and skew data.
m-p{3} ( @mp3@lemmy.ca ) 2•11 months agoThis is where you use the scientific method to counter-argument their claims, not the court.
Threatening to sue is just another attempt at censorship, ironic from someone so free speech.