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<blockquote style="position: relative; padding-left: 55px;"><section><a href="https://hachyderm.io/users/molly0xfff/statuses/113787674993395970">Molly White (molly0xfff@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jan-2025 00:02:16 JST</a><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@molly0xfff" title="molly0xfff@hachyderm.io"><img src="https://gnusocial.jp/avatar/34789-48-20230824095227.webp" width="48" height="48" alt="Molly White" style="position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0;">Molly White</a><div><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@molly0xfff/113787667008664985" rel="in-reply-to">in reply to</a></div></section><article><p><a href="https://www.citationneeded.news/elon-musk-and-the-rights-war-on-wikipedia/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.citationneeded.news/elon-musk-and-the-rights-war-on-wikipedia/</a></p></article><footer><a rel="bookmark" href="https://gnusocial.jp/conversation/4328415#notice-8461883">In conversation</a><time datetime="2025-01-08T00:02:16+09:00" title="Wednesday, 08-Jan-2025 00:02:16 JST">about 2 months ago</time> <span>from <span><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@molly0xfff/113787674993395970" rel="external" title="Sent from hachyderm.io via ActivityPub">hachyderm.io</a></span></span><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@molly0xfff/113787674993395970">permalink</a><h4>Attachments</h4><ol><li><article><header><div>Domain not in remote thumbnail source whitelist: www.citationneeded.news</div><h5><a href="https://www.citationneeded.news/elon-musk-and-the-rights-war-on-wikipedia/">Elon Musk and the right’s war on Wikipedia</a></h5><div> from <span>@molly0xFFF</span></div></header><div>The world's richest man has joined a growing chorus of right-wing voices attacking Wikipedia as part of an intensifying campaign against free and open access information.</div><footer></footer></article></li><li><label><a rel="external" href="https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/3860167">Although many on the right, including Musk,1819 have styled themselves as valiant defenders of free speech, their actions expose them as opposite: only willing to defend speech they find agreeable, while hostile towards and desperate to clamp down on criticism or opposing views. Musk, for example, has directed that “cisgender” be blocklisted on Twitter as a “slur”, and posts by most accounts that contain the word are automatically hidden from view (unlike posts containing the long list of slurs he has apparently deemed acceptable).20 He has brought SLAPP lawsuits against critics, including one dismissed by a federal judge as clearly intended to “punish [the nonprofit Center for Countering Digital Hate] for CCDH publications that criticized X Corp. [Twitter] — and perhaps in order to dissuade others who might wish to engage in such criticism.”21 He spent $44 billion to acquire Twitter, ostensibly over concerns that conservative voices were being unfairly silenced, but really so that he could be the one to dictate which speech was and was not allowed on the platform.</a></label><br><a href="https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/113/787/672/305/071/770/original/3b41daba386bb0c0.png" rel="external">https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/113/787/672/305/071/770/original/3b41daba386bb0c0.png</a></li><li><label><a rel="external" href="https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/3860168">This hostility to information sources outside their control extends far beyond the media. Right-wing groups have launched coordinated campaigns to ban books from schools and libraries, particularly those discussing race, gender, or LGBT topics.25 They’ve pushed legislation like the “Kids Online Safety Act” that, while framed as protecting children, would require platforms to restrict access to information deemed “harmful” or “inappropriate for minors”, which is likely to include resources for LGBT youth and information about reproductive or gender-affirming healthcare, sexual education, or mental health.26 And they’ve supported state-level laws requiring internet platforms to implement age restrictions that threaten privacy and are vulnerable to weaponization against content deemed “obscene”.27 The common thread connecting these efforts is not protecting children or promoting “family values,” but controlling what information people can access.</a></label><br><a href="https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/113/787/672/307/711/011/original/305e6dc2f737b5a2.png" rel="external">https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/113/787/672/307/711/011/original/305e6dc2f737b5a2.png</a></li></ol></footer></blockquote>

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