by camjohnson26 on 9/5/23, 4:28 PM with 110 comments
by animatethrow on 9/5/23, 5:55 PM
https://jweekly.com/2000/05/12/judge-fines-adl-10-5-million-...
"On April 28 [2000], the jury found most of the charges leveled by the ADL, based on the tapes, to be 'not substantially true.'"
by rsynnott on 9/5/23, 6:50 PM
"Have you ever seen a microservice drink a glass of water, Mandrake?"
by afavour on 9/5/23, 5:59 PM
Sounds like something he ought to be able to substantiate pretty simply, so why not do so?
I normally hesitate any comparisons between Musk and Trump but the lack of self reflection and baseless threats of legal action are a real commonality. He surely knows he’d have no leg to stand on but still wants to drum up some drama.
by skyyler on 9/5/23, 5:22 PM
by tibbydudeza on 9/5/23, 7:42 PM
"Elon Musk comes around to blaming the Jews" as a headline.
Yep this will work really well :).
by meaningjoj on 9/5/23, 8:01 PM
by shadowgovt on 9/5/23, 7:10 PM
... collecting biometric and employment history on every user.
... uh oh!
by Georgelemental on 9/5/23, 5:49 PM
> We are confident that the vast majority of American tourists will avoid a country whose reputation is associated with Nazism, even if that association is not justified.
by leetharris on 9/5/23, 5:39 PM
Personally, I only follow things I like on Twitter which means I don't see any hate speech. It's hard for me to anecdotally say if things have changed. But it's not hard to imagine that chronically-online groups who have hate for Elon and his companies would try to crumble his social network because they don't agree with his approach.
This feels like a really slippery slope. Hard to weigh in honestly.
by speak_plainly on 9/5/23, 6:00 PM
[Background on the new leader of the ADL and some suspicious activity with Al Sharpton]
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/al-sharpton...
[A review of a documentary on anti-semitism that touches on political influence from the ADL]
https://www.npr.org/2009/11/24/120452232/exploring-the-polit...
[An article on how Facebook caved to leftist groups like the ADL]
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/07/03/activists-...
by Racing0461 on 9/5/23, 6:14 PM
Either you are a public square and you gain protection from your users commenting but you can't delete or moderate their content (sans actual spam/child p/etc), or you can moderate/curate your users content but you are no longer protected/can be held liable for things your users post.
This worse of both worlds we have going on here results in these alphabet soup agencies/ngos having a place on the boardroom directly affecting people's speech.