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Nothing says "free speech absolutism" like filing another SLAPP against an organisation whose speech you don't like.

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/08/01/free-speech-absolutist-elon-musk-files-obvious-slapp-suit-against-non-profit-critic/

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[-] breadsmasher@lemmy.world 41 points 1 year ago

Maybe twitter should stop platforming nazis then?

[-] downpunxx@kbin.social 25 points 1 year ago

Blaming the Jews for your problems, problems you yourself have caused and continue to cause, precisely what Musk is doing here, is the very dictionary definition of antisemitism

[-] chaogomu@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago

I would love for this to happen, if only because of the discovery phase of the trial.

See, that's a two-way street. And while the ADL is open about their processes, extwitter is in for some headaches that will make the ADL report look positive in comparison.

[-] criitz@reddthat.com 11 points 1 year ago

Since the article doesn't define SLAPP despite using it dozens of times

Strategic lawsuits against public participation (also known as SLAPP suits or intimidation lawsuits ), [1] or strategic litigation against public participation, [2] are lawsuits intended to censor, intimidate, and silence critics by burdening them with the cost of a legal defense until they abandon their criticism or opposition. [3]

[-] Etterra@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

I'm pretty sure that if you files one more frivolous lawsuit, he gets a free sub next time.

[-] lath@lemmy.world -3 points 1 year ago

Has it though? I saw recently posted some kind of proof (no source available) that ADL once threatened the country of Iceland to destroy its tourism industry by falsely accusing them of antisemitism to the US crowd if they didn't do something they wanted. Should that be true, then it sets a precedent.

[-] merridew@feddit.uk 2 points 1 year ago

Ahem. I believe you are referring to this request, made by the ADL to the Icelandic Ministry for Foreign Affairs, that the Minister take action to shut down the hosting of a website

mapping and publishing addresses of Jewish individuals and institutions [in Boston] and calling for these individuals and institutions to be “dismantled” and “disrupted”

which had recently migrated to a hosting service based in Iceland. Its anonymous "anti-Zionist" creators state that they

have shown physical addresses, named officers and leaders, and mapped connections. These entities exist in the physical world and can be disrupted in the physical world. We hope people will use our map to help figure out how to push back effectively.

So I'm not really sure what you mean in terms of "precedent". Telling people that anti-Semitic material being hosted on servers inside a country is being hosted on servers inside a country is not a false accusation of anything.

https://www.adl.org/resources/letter/adl-letter-icelands-minister-foreign-affairs-regarding-mapping-project

https://www.adl.org/boston-mapping-project

[-] lath@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Cool. Thank you for the sources.

[-] merridew@feddit.uk 2 points 1 year ago

No problem.

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