“Last week we got a letter from Elon Musk’s X. Corp threatening CCDH with legal action over our work, exposing the proliferation of hate and lies on Twitter since he became the owner. Elon Musk’s actions represent a brazen attempt to silence honest criticism and independent research in the desperate hope that he can stem the tide of negative stories and rebuild his relationship with advertisers.”
[With apologies to anyone who dislikes endless Musk/Huffman spam in this community. I put it here because misusing the law to silence independent tech researchers this has wider implications.]
Anybody calling themselves “free speech absolutists” absolutely aren’t.
They always choose to silence or remove the people and ideas they disagree with.
They absolutely want free speech as long as it’s speech they agree with!
Hate speech. They want hate speech. Stop trying to dress it up as something else. They want hate speech.