> “X Corp. has brought this case in order to punish CCDH for CCDH publications that criticized X Corp. — and perhaps in order to dissuade others who might wish to engage in such criticism.”
"I'm a free speech absolutist"
"I'm a free speech absolutist"
This means not allowing things like direct calls to immediate violence, child pornography, fraud, blackmail, and libel.
Him wanting restrictions on the above things does not make him a hypocrite, it makes him reasonable. Take his words seriously, not literally. Let's move past the "gotchas" please.
Yes, he tends to claim that.
In this case, however, he was found by a court to be abusing the legal system for the specific purpose of using the government to suppress speech that is legal in the United States, and sanctioned for that abuse.
> 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. This case is about punishing the Defendants for their speech.