Judge mocks X for “vapid” argument in Musk’s hate speech lawsuit
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Judge mocks X for “vapid” argument in Musk’s hate speech lawsuit::Judge to X lawyer: “I’m trying to figure out in my mind how that’s possibly true."
Judge mocks X for “vapid” argument in Musk’s hate speech lawsuit::Judge to X lawyer: “I’m trying to figure out in my mind how that’s possibly true."
Sounds like capitalism is working as intended and Space Karen has a problem when it’s not in his favor.
It's very easy to hate on Musk but what you have to understand is that it's also fun free speech for me but not for thee.
Judge is having none of it haha.
That seems like a Twitter problem, not a CCDH problem.
How dare they say things that are entirely true.
You mean "X" problem .
If only they'd had a policy in place!
Ignoring that researching how toxic a toxic shithole is is very clearly not "hacking" and reporting it is first amendment protected speech, so knowing financial harm is coming shouldn't be relevant in any way:
What the actual fuck is wrong with this dude?
My guess is he threw a tantrum and yelled at his lawyers to do something about it, and it's the best they came up with.
If you're a defense attorney, you need to be entitled to any argument no matter how tenuous or ridiculous in order to have due process of law. You can't be scared an argument will get you in trouble.
But there needs to be a line for a plaintiff where you at minimum get suspended from any sort of practice of law for a serious length of time for absurdly frivolous arguments, and it needs to be way before this.
The only thing that makes this arrangement of words makes sense to me is if it's an explanation for why Musk is an idiot for reinstating hate speech accounts since he should've be able to foresee that they'd lose ad money because of it.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
It looks like Elon Musk may lose X's lawsuit against hate speech researchers who encouraged a major brand boycott after flagging ads appearing next to extremist content on X, the social media site formerly known as Twitter.
X is trying to argue that the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) violated the site's terms of service and illegally accessed non-public data to conduct its reporting, allegedly posing a security risk for X.
The boycott, X alleged, cost the company tens of millions of dollars by spooking advertisers, while X contends that the CCDH's reporting is misleading and ads are rarely served on extremist content.
But at a hearing Thursday, US district judge Charles Breyer told the CCDH that he would consider dismissing X's lawsuit, repeatedly appearing to mock X's decision to file it in the first place.
According to NPR, Breyer suggested that X was trying to "shoehorn" its legal theory by using language from a breach of contract claim, when what the company actually appeared to be alleging was defamation.
CCDH's CEO and founder, Imran Ahmed, provided a statement to Ars, confirming that the group is "very pleased with how yesterday’s argument went, including many of the questions and comments from the court."
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