merridewSep 5, 2023

Elon Musk threatens to sue Anti-Defamation League over lost X revenue

https://feddit.uk/post/2028206

Elon Musk threatens to sue Anti-Defamation League over lost X revenue - Feddit UK

Nothing says “free speech absolutism” like filing another SLAPP against an organisation whose speech you don’t like. https://www.techdirt.com/2023/08/01/free-speech-absolutist-elon-musk-files-obvious-slapp-suit-against-non-profit-critic/ [https://www.techdirt.com/2023/08/01/free-speech-absolutist-elon-musk-files-obvious-slapp-suit-against-non-profit-critic/]

Show threadlathSep 5, 2023
Has it though? I saw recently posted some kind of proof (no source available) that ADL once threatened the country of Iceland to destroy its tourism industry by falsely accusing them of antisemitism to the US crowd if they didn’t do something they wanted. Should that be true, then it sets a precedent.
Show threadmerridew

Ahem. I believe you are referring to this request, made by the ADL to the Icelandic Ministry for Foreign Affairs, that the Minister take action to shut down the hosting of a website

mapping and publishing addresses of Jewish individuals and institutions [in Boston] and calling for these individuals and institutions to be “dismantled” and “disrupted”

which had recently migrated to a hosting service based in Iceland. Its anonymous “anti-Zionist” creators state that they

have shown physical addresses, named officers and leaders, and mapped connections. These entities exist in the physical world and can be disrupted in the physical world. We hope people will use our map to help figure out how to push back effectively.

So I’m not really sure what you mean in terms of “precedent”. Telling people that anti-Semitic material being hosted on servers inside a country is being hosted on servers inside a country is not a false accusation of anything.

adl.org/…/adl-letter-icelands-minister-foreign-af…

www.adl.org/boston-mapping-project

ADL Letter to Iceland's Minister for Foreign Affairs Regarding the Mapping Project

ADL
Sep 6, 2023 at 7:39amWeb
Show threadlathSep 6, 2023
Cool. Thank you for the sources.
Show threadmerridewSep 6, 2023
No problem.