{"id":11105,"date":"2023-08-08T11:38:38","date_gmt":"2023-08-08T09:38:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/08\/08\/the-intent-is-to-get-us-to-shut-up-why-elon-musk-is-taking-on-an-anti-hate-speech-group\/"},"modified":"2023-08-08T11:38:38","modified_gmt":"2023-08-08T09:38:38","slug":"the-intent-is-to-get-us-to-shut-up-why-elon-musk-is-taking-on-an-anti-hate-speech-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/08\/08\/the-intent-is-to-get-us-to-shut-up-why-elon-musk-is-taking-on-an-anti-hate-speech-group\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The intent is to get us to shut up\u2019: Why Elon Musk is taking on an anti-hate-speech group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The company formerly known as Twitter alleges that the Center for Countering Digital Hate drove away advertisers \u2013 but CCDH and legal experts say otherwise<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/ablink.editorial.theguardian.com\/ss\/c\/TBl-lE0k4WbTlFRn6v-lQXxTpTslqnvUsR2ofAkC00vqkHXqakTSxrykj9mrdACFo11SPMvm9ONAti2JcHBqUgcduObToxycReEYHcTAh6nov_u_7l464yKkl5CZpPeg-CqG3ueb-8UiDZ4dOkhK_xu6BZysaGtGOA-w2_0KTqLsMBLqZrcGelEg-7T5C6DRfMSsX1Wcyrv2RlHjbzIGx0ePxMD7meIXmznkqCFxtrflV_YvxDV9cqXgzdq7c2-9qYTW0MyIMCG7p9sc7wIKCg\/3ha\/N7031ZxvS8Cv2AmB8PHP-g\/h27\/towm4HqYM1UtQe3kzAkaoAWT_zh9HyZuTvPyJCk6JeE\">Don\u2019t get TechScape delivered to your inbox? Sign up for the full article here<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Censorship, or rather his stance against it, is a key reason why Elon Musk bought Twitter for $44bn last year. His social media company\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2023\/aug\/02\/twitter-accuses-anti-hate-speech-group-over-tens-of-millions-of-dollars-in-lost-advertising\">lawsuit against an anti-hate speech group<\/a> refers to censorship, or variations on the word, eight times.<\/p>\n<p>But for critics of his complaint against the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), it is Musk who is doing the censoring. \u201cThe intent is definitely to get the centre to shut up. That\u2019s the whole point of this suit, to prevent the centre from exercising any speech that Musk doesn\u2019t like,\u201d says Prof Brian Quinn from Boston College law school.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2023\/aug\/08\/techscape-elon-musk-x-twitter-lawsuit-ccdh-hate-speech\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/6dcd305fc82f0ef61cdcaa1739f92efe6ad66d7e\/12_627_4560_2737\/master\/4560.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=4a8a4b6f8ed241290ecd60c5554e91a6\" title=\"\u2018The intent is to get us to shut up\u2019: Why Elon Musk is taking on an anti-hate-speech group\" \/>The company formerly known as Twitter alleges that the Center for Countering Digital Hate drove away advertisers \u2013 but CCDH and legal experts say otherwise<br \/>\n\u2022 Don\u2019t get TechScape delivered to your inbox? Sign up for the full article here<br \/>\nCensorship, or rather his stance against it, is a key reason why Elon Musk bought Twitter for $44bn last year. His social media company\u2019s lawsuit against an anti-hate speech group refers to censorship, or variations on the word, eight times.<br \/>\nBut for critics of his complaint against the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), it is Musk who is doing the censoring. \u201cThe intent is definitely to get the centre to shut up. That\u2019s the whole point of this suit, to prevent the centre from exercising any speech that Musk doesn\u2019t like,\u201d says Prof Brian Quinn from Boston College law school. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The company formerly known as Twitter alleges that the Center for Countering Digital Hate drove away advertisers \u2013 but CCDH and legal experts say otherwise \u2022 Don\u2019t get TechScape delivered to your inbox? Sign up for the full article here Censorship, or rather his stance against it, is a key reason why Elon Musk bought &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/08\/08\/the-intent-is-to-get-us-to-shut-up-why-elon-musk-is-taking-on-an-anti-hate-speech-group\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018The intent is to get us to shut up\u2019: Why Elon Musk is taking on an anti-hate-speech group<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":11106,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11105"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11105\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}