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2023-11-22 -Great Cultural Revolution
Elon Musk yet again pulls back the veil to reveal the machinery of the liberal censorship complex
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Posted by Fred 2023-11-22 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11135 views ]  Top

#1 So...everyone knows that Media Matters is a Jewish organization, right?

And what they're fighting is Elon Musk's endorsement of an anti-Semitic tweet?

Posted by Ebbease Panda9307 2023-11-22 03:11||   2023-11-22 03:11|| Front Page Top

#2 No.

You may not like Media Matters for what reasons ever, but the lawsuit is frivolous and has no merit. (And Elon knows this or he wouldn't have gone judge shopping in Texas).

I tested this myself immediately after Media Matter broke the story.

Just by entering #HeilHitler in the search box, I immediately got an ad of one of the "major companies" Media Matter mentions (you need to be careful here obviously). I tried again several times, and then an ad of the German government came up.

Champion of Free Speech? Are you kidding me? Is he going to sue me now?
Posted by European Conservative 2023-11-22 05:55||   2023-11-22 05:55|| Front Page Top

#3 Why do you say it is a jewish organization it was started by a Catholic.
Posted by Penguin_of_the_Desert 2023-11-22 08:01||   2023-11-22 08:01|| Front Page Top

#4  ...but the lawsuit is frivolous and has no merit.

I'm not so sure - plenty of states have laws against deceptive advertising / business practices. I know H & R Block gets sued nearly every year by at least one state Attorney General for that very thing. Maybe that's why Musk brought suit there (add in the facts that both Tesla and SpaceX are now Texas companies).
Posted by Raj 2023-11-22 09:59||   2023-11-22 09:59|| Front Page Top

#5 Not so fast, EC. I read the complaint, and if the facts are as stated, Elon/X have prima facie cases for tortuous interference and defamation. (IANAL, but spent enough time in senior management to have some idea of how this works...)

If this ends up in court, discovery will be lots of fun - for X. They are least semi-transparent through publishing their placement algorithms. MM has been entirely opaque, and X has plenty of reason - again, assuming the allegations prove out - to be given access to search for proof of malice on MM's part.
Posted by Nero 2023-11-22 10:38||   2023-11-22 10:38|| Front Page Top

#6 Why do you say it is a jewish organization

There is a word for people who define as Jewish everything they dislike, Penguin. Ebbease Panda9307 is one of those.
Posted by trailing wife 2023-11-22 10:54||   2023-11-22 10:54|| Front Page Top

#7 Another reason why people like him like Media Matters:

Posted by trailing wife 2023-11-22 10:58||   2023-11-22 10:58|| Front Page Top

#8 More on Carusone, if you have the stomach for it.

"Japs, Jewry And Trannies": Media Matters President's Bigoted Blogs Resurface Amid Spat With Musk.

I must confess I was unable to read the whole thing. It's pretty disgusting.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2023-11-22 11:35||   2023-11-22 11:35|| Front Page Top

#9 I'm no lawyer. I have no opinion on the merits of Musk's suit. But I can tell you as soon as I heard Nora O'Donnell on CBS news last week breaking this story that it was a hit job. O'Donnell and her ilk hate Musk because he doesn't censor X the way her bosses censor and slant the news on CBS. If she had any pride she would have left CBS a long time ago and tried to find honest work somewhere...anywhere would be better than CBS. This whole story is yet another left wing hoax.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2023-11-22 11:42||   2023-11-22 11:42|| Front Page Top

#10 Musk and Milei are upsetting all the right people, IMHO.
Posted by M. Murcek 2023-11-22 12:03||   2023-11-22 12:03|| Front Page Top

#11 Media Matters is a Soros operation top to bottom. Their job is to fight anti-Semitism.

Maybe if you find yourself posting hate propaganda against them, you're on the wrong side. Say, who are the good guys in the current Israel-Hamas war?
Posted by Glenter Gleremble1307 2023-11-22 12:04||   2023-11-22 12:04|| Front Page Top

#12 Their job is to fight anti-Semitism

Nice lie, tool.
Posted by Frank G 2023-11-22 12:16||   2023-11-22 12:16|| Front Page Top

#13 Looking at that Libs of Tiktok link about the Media Matters posts about jew things...

Anyone who has watched South Park know this is just quoting Eric Cartman.
Posted by Penguin_of_the_Desert 2023-11-22 12:43||   2023-11-22 12:43|| Front Page Top

#14 @Nero

Tortuous interference? I don't know how MM did it (and I bet Musk doesn't know either) but I could REPRODUCE the results.

I put "#HeilHitler in the search box. Of course Nazi posts (and accounts) came up, and next to them an ad of one of those companies, then an ad of the German gov. And you bet I didn't do anything "tortuous". No shady tactics here.

I bet "discovey" will be interesting but not in the way Elon wants it.

"as if they were what typical X users experience on the platform."

This is nonsense. Of course, if you don't look for Nazi content (as most people will) you won't see ads next to Nazi content, as you won't see Nazi content.
Posted by European Conservative 2023-11-22 14:20||   2023-11-22 14:20|| Front Page Top

#15 The Left routinely uses this tactic to take platforms offline. Gateway Pundit and many other right leaning sites have had problems in the Comment Sections by the Brigades of Lefties that invade and start posting their anti-gay slurs, racist black pics, and their anti-semitism troupes - then they report their comments as hate speech.

They do this stuff all the time. It is calculated. That's one reason why it needs to be defeated. Give them an inch and they will exploit it at our detriment.

Half decade ago The_Donald over at Reddit was nuked by this exact tactic. This is part of their playbook. And considering we on the right dont have much protections and the protections we do have increasingly thin, maybe we need 1000 more frivolous lawsuits.
Posted by mossomo 2023-11-22 14:41||   2023-11-22 14:41|| Front Page Top

#16 Red flag conspiracy theories.

Riiiiiight...
Posted by M. Murcek 2023-11-22 14:54||   2023-11-22 14:54|| Front Page Top

#17 A user wrote that "Jewish communties have been pushing the exact kind of dialectical hatred against whites that they claim to want people to stop using against them."

Musk: "You have said the actual truth."
Posted by European Conservative 2023-11-22 15:15||   2023-11-22 15:15|| Front Page Top

#18 Following some particular creed insulates a person from being called out as a leftist?

I don't see it.
Posted by M. Murcek 2023-11-22 16:46||   2023-11-22 16:46|| Front Page Top

#19  Jews are trying to destory the entire universe. It is up to we "Elon Musk Beyond Awesome Warriors of both the physical and multi dimensional world" to save the proportionate universe from these dad jim Jews.
Posted by Wheper Elmusolet8951 2023-11-22 23:24||   2023-11-22 23:24|| Front Page Top

#20  Jews are trying to destory the entire universe. It is up to we "Elon Musk Beyond Awesome Warriors of both the physical and multi dimensional world" to save the proportionate universe from these dad jim Jews.
Posted by Wheper Elmusolet8951 2023-11-22 23:26||   2023-11-22 23:26|| Front Page Top

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