Oolong’s lawsuit against that org documenting racist and extremist content on Twatter just got tossed:
A judge in California on Monday dismissed tech billionaire Elon Musk’s lawsuit against the Center for Countering Digital Hate, a non-profit that has published reports chronicling the rise of racist, antisemitic and extremist content on X, formerly Twitter, since Musk’s acquisition.
The case was dismissed in accordance with the state’s anti-Slapp law, which forbids nuisance lawsuits intended to punish the exercise of free speech.
“Sometimes it is unclear what is driving a litigation, and only by reading between the lines of a complaint can one attempt to surmise a plaintiff’s true purpose,” wrote Charles Breyer, the US district judge, in the ruling. “Other times, a complaint is so unabashedly and vociferously about one thing that there can be no mistaking that purpose. This case represents the latter circumstance. This case is about punishing the defendants for their speech.”
This was a pretty bullshit case from the off and the judge. Alas that it almost certainly won’t make any difference to the amount of “racist, antisemitic and extremist content” on the platform, not if the amount of that sort of shit which I’ve been reporting lately and getting nothing but “chinlesswonder1488 hasn’t broken our safety policies” type replies is indicative…
