hahahahah i'd like to see that nazi fuck try, see him wade through discovery, the ADL was built for this shit, it's their very reason for being
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Elon Musk said Monday that X, formerly known as Twitter, has “no choice” but to file a defamation lawsuit against the Anti-Defamation League amid an ongoing slump in advertising revenue.
“Based on what we’ve heard from advertisers, ADL seems to be responsible for most of our revenue loss,” Musk wrote on Monday. “Giving them maximum benefit of the doubt, I don’t see any scenario where they’re responsible for less than 10% of the value destruction, so ~$4 billion.”
How to avoid being antisemitic, step one: Don't blame your incompetence and piss poor judgement on "the Jews."
Elon Musk: D'oh!
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For context, this all started Thursday when the ADL xeeted that is had a "frank and productive" conversation with X's CEO. She replied with some warm and fuzzy PR bullshit about working together to improve the platform blah blah blah. But the right wing nutjobs weren't happy with the implication that X was in anyway cooperating with the ADL and there was immediate backlash. "Ban the ADL" became a trending hashtag, because, according to the racist majority on X, the ADL is the actual hate group and they pressure advertisers who in turn pressure platforms to "ban free speech." Musk, always quick to undermine the sad sack holding the title "CEO" jumped on that bandwagon and been xeeting about it all weekend, threatening to ban them, generally talking trash, and now threatening to sue.
I find it depressing that I'm aware of all this.
they pressure advertisers who in turn pressure platforms to “ban free speech.”
This argument of theirs is so strange. Don't advertisers too have free speech? Is the right wing arguing that advertisers shouldn't be allowed to choose to stop advertising with Twitter? What "pressure" can ADL put on them? Does the ADL have legal authority to force advertisers to exit Twitter? No. Is the ADL holding private information about the CEOs of advertisers and extorting the advertisers to leave? Not likely.
Is the ADL communicating a position that the majority of the advertiser's customers find the racist, fascist, and misogynistic content now omnipresent on Twitter distasteful, and therefore harmful to the advertisers' brands and with negative impacts to future sales? Likely yes, but those statements are themselves free speech on the part of the ADL.
What the right wing seems to be arguing is that the definition of free speech should be the right to say whatever racist, fascist, and misogynistic comments they like without anyone making choices of their own to dissociate with the right wing. That's not free speech that's....fascism!
Honestly? Musk might be so used to big business wining in court that he thinks they might just reflexively take his side.
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It's hard to take that seriously when you use "xeeted".
The whole website needs to be xeeted out of xistence at this point.
I call them x-cretions. So you x-crete them.
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One of the oldest most experienced groups at litigation against hate and defamation will have a field day with this. I would not be surprised to see X owing the ADL damages if Musk actually follows through.
This is as nearsighted as DeSantis starting legal battle with Disney.
This is as nearsighted as DeSantis starting legal battle with Disney.
I'm so for it
"You made me do it"! yells the abuser. This ~~utter fucknut~~ psychopathic narcissist can't possibly consider that the lost ad revenue has anything to do with his turning twitter into 4chan.
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Why does he hate free speech so much?
He is remarkably bad at running a business for a billionaire.
That’s because he’s not and never was a businessman. He’s a tech guy who got super lucky and became filthy rich. Musk builds and designs shit, he doesn’t know squat about running a company. He should stick to playing with his rockets and making new roadsters. This whole CEO foray has turned out real bad.
He wishes he was a tech guy. He just piggybacks off of everyone else. He's a leech, a parasite.
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Musk builds and designs shit
Musk attaches his name to things others have built and designed.
As surprising as it may sound, most billionaires do not arrive there through competence. They get there by way of inheritance and privilege.
Didn't Elon bring this on himself by keeping the Nazis though ?
Not even keeping, explicitly adding them back and unbanning them, and letting them make decisions to ban leftists who spoke out against it (andy ngo recommending people to the chopping block comes to mind)
Not only keeping but returning en masse.
yes.
He's like one step away from claiming the Jews control the world's money supply.
"Free speech absolutist"
Oh he's a free speech absolutist, alright! Free speech absolutely begins and ends with his personal views and those he finds agreeable.
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He’s suing the anti-defamation league for… defamation. Is this a YouTube prank?
That's not very free market of you bro.
gotta love America where not making as much money as you wanted is a crime
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How does he even do it? It’s like he’s on a zealous crusade to embarrass himself. I keep thinking “he can’t look any more foolish and shitty” and he fuckin KEEPS proving me wrong. It’s almost impressive at this point. He stays setting new PR for negative PR.
Can we stop posting this fucking douche?
Can we stop posting this fucking douche?
Feel free to ignore news you aren't interested in. The sad reality is that Elon Musk is relevant and his actions have real effects on people. Bury your head in the sand if you like but don't expect me to join you.
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