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"Elon Musk claims to be a “free speech absolutist,” but almost every time we
look more closely at that claim, we discover that he’s one of the most
censorial, free speech suppressors around. He just got called out by a judge
for filing a SLAPP suit seeking to punish an organization for its speech. And
then earlier this year, he funded Gina Carano’s SLAPP suit against Disney.
The Carano lawsuit was under the program that Musk announced last year about
how he would fund various lawsuits in support of free speech. The Carano
lawsuit was clearly a SLAPP suit designed to suppress Disney’s own speech.
In the last week or so, Musk has funded two more lawsuits, to great fanfare
among his loudest supporters. But, once again, the details of both show that
Elon Musk is supporting anti-free speech attacks, rather than the reverse."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
