A federal judge on Monday threw out a lawsuit by Elon Musk’s X that had targeted a watchdog group for its critical reports about hate speech on the social media platform.
In a blistering 52-page order, the judge blasted X’s case as plainly punitive rather than about protecting the platform’s security and legal rights.
“Sometimes it is unclear what is driving a litigation,” wrote District Judge Charles Breyer, of the US District Court for the Northern District of California, in the order’s opening lines. “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,” Breyer continued. “This case is about punishing the Defendants for their speech.”
X’s lawsuit had accused the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) of violating the company’s terms of service when it studied, and then wrote about, hate speech on the platform following Musk’s takeover of Twitter in October 2022. X has blamed CCDH’s reports, which showcase the prevalence of hate speech on the platform, for amplifying brand safety concerns and driving advertisers away from the site.
In the suit, X claimed that it had suffered tens of millions of dollars in damages from CCDH’s publications. CCDH is an international non-profit with offices in the UK and US.
Because of its potential to destroy the watchdog group, the case has been widely viewed as a bellwether for research and accountability on X as Musk has welcomed back prominent white supremacists and others to the platform who had previously been suspended when the platform was still a publicly-traded company called Twitter.
omg wait yeah a notif tag about the "isopods are cringe" thing just reminded me: you ever see that post on here with an addition where someone shyly tagged it with, "I know possums are "out" but-" what do you mean out they're an animal 😭 don't let people who twist themselves up trying to be unauthentically different to stay on trend make you insecure, none of this matters
so after a few conversations with @22point8miles about how wendy by maisie peters is a rogan song but society ain’t ready for that conversation yet, i keep thinking about how rory’s life would have been if she would’ve said yes to logan at 22. would they move to california together? would she host his parties like emily? work under mitchum’s newspaper until she won’t be able to do her own thing because she is an huntzberger now? would she still takes part in the life & death brigade stupid tricks even though it could get them killed? i just don’t see rory happy in any of it, it is the life she could have but i don’t think she’ll be happy in them, and pretending to like them is exhausting. i just. mhm what do you guys think?
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: SPY x FAMILY (Manga), SPY x FAMILY (Anime)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Damian Desmond/Anya Forger
Characters: Damian Desmond, Anya Forger, Loid Forger | Twilight, Others(mentioned)
Additional Tags: Fluff, Anya Forger Needs a Hug, Damian Desmond Needs a Hug, Damian Desmond is Bad at Feelings, Damian Desmond is a Softie, is a tag I can't beieve doesn't exist already, Aged-Up Character(s), Academic Woes
Summary:
What if the reader yells at one of the killers during a period of stress?
((Sorry for the late post I forgot I had tumblr cause family problems that I'm dealing with, might include an x reader thing where reader has severe family and parental issues
TW FOR MENTIONS AND THINGS RELATING TO URBANSPOOK'S ANALOG HORROR "THE PAINTER" BUT READER IS OVER 18 AND HUMAN))
"When you lash out from stress"
• When you do lash out during the overwhelming stress was before you even had Stockholm Syndrome and you still suffered from nightmares from the other murders you've witnessed
• You didn't think much as you screamed at the two, even swearing them out from the stressed you've bottled up
• The Painter was taken aback but more thinking you looked cute when you were stressed out where it turned into anger
• The Brute was more angry and thinking you were going to escape their grasp like Tina did
• They both even enjoyed when your anger and stress turned into fear cause you knew you were going to get punished
• They cut off your toes and heels so you had a hard time with walking even limping here and there from time to time
• And now you weren't allowed to sleep in a bed but a rusty old small kennel that a medium dog can still have perfect room in but you felt more claustrophobic than anything
• Even with your begs and cries of being sorry you were stuck in there for two weeks but they still fed and hydrated you since you were crying so "nice and sweetly."
• Once you get out you had to share the awful nightmares you had which ended in an additional punishment of a cut on your body for not getting to see your pain from a simple fictional scenario made up as you slept
• of course they would be more sadistic than caring and worried you were hurting yourself with bottling the emotions up
• Ever since then, even if the problem is situation hurt you and the two were sadistic you never kept secrets from them not even old ones you don't admit to yourself
being on the big three social media platforms is just seeing people on each platform rant about how every other platform is bad and toxic, actually, unlike THIS platform, which is good and has absolutely no drawbacks (or those drawbacks are NOWHERE near as bad as the drawbacks of those OTHER social media platforms), and it's like, hm... maybe ALL social media just in general has its good parts and it's bad parts and we all need to get off our high horses about it?
Unpopular opinion: it’s disheartening to see rec lists. I know those (like you) create them with good intentions, to help support other writers and share their stories… but it always seems like the same people get their stories featured, while writers like me don’t ever get included, despite following all the same people. It just makes you wonder if your writing wasn’t good enough, or not memorable enough, or if those people don’t follow you back or dont care about whatever you post. Just feels kind of defeating.
ahh i remember i used to reblog wildly different stuff like last year or something. maybe even a few months ago.. beginning of this year. sometimes i worry what i post here because im like ahhh oh no what will my followers think!! what if they dont like what i post… this isnt what they came for.. i need to stop caring about that