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Radley Balko (@radleybalko.bsky.social):
Musk and the Republicans want the government to force companies to buy ads on shitty right-wing websites that promote Nazis and political violence.
Because know, free speech and all.
www.nytimes.com/2024/08/06/t...
Zachary Edgerton (@doctorbiobrain.bsky.social):
Someone who actually knows something about the law please correct me, but...this seems absolutely insane and not at all a winning suit?
Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):
That depends (as always).
If Musk can show that Twitter / X had contractual business with these advertisers that was interfered with by tortious slander / libel on the part of GARM —
But proving that GARM's observations are slander / libel / tortious — tall mountain to climb
Zachary Edgerton (@doctorbiobrain.bsky.social):
Yeah I was reading this as not being any sort of breach of contract, just "they stopped giving us money", which is why it seems so bizarre to me!
Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):
In this case, I hope it would come down to what is conscionable snd what is inconscionable.
Is it conscionable to hold an advertiser to a contract to advertise on a platform that invites and encourages neoNazis and violent bigots and terrorists?
Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):
Whatever contracts these advertisers had with Twitter, they were made in the understanding that Twitter had advertising safety standards. Musk abrogated those standards. That's not the advertisers' fault — that's Musk / Twitter / X-Chan's fault.
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Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):
Musk's assertion is that GARM was motivated by political bias, anti-conservative bias. The same reason he sued MMFA.
He's trying to switch "hate speech" — the actual motivation for cutting association — with "conservative political" speech.
This is part of a broad strategy that stretches back —
Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):
Back least a decade.
There's some evidence that Reddit didn't move to shut down /r/the_donald (despite mountains of evidence of it being a violent extremist hate group) out of fear of being sued in this way.
Abby Koch (@abbykoch.bsky.social):
To be fair, the Venn diagram of hate speech and conservative political rhetoric can seem pretty close to a single circle these days
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