Billionaire Elon Musk has said he bought Twitter in order to support free speech and that the ADL (formally the Anti-Defamation League, founded in 1913 as the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai Brith) has tried to destroy Twitter, because they don’t like free speech. Good! For more than 15 years, that has included VDARE.com’s speech

Now Musk, whose net worth is $216 billion according to Barrons, is threatening to sue the ADL for defamation [Elon Musk threatens to sue Anti-Defamation League over antisemitism claims, by Elizabeth Napolitano, CBS, September 5, 2023]:

This is partly because of influencers like Ireland’s Keith Woods, who have made “BanTheADL” trend on Twitter:

Make them pay! The ADL is a sophisticated extortion racket holding social media companies to ransom. If people don't stand up to them now it will soon be too late to do anything.

No one voted to put Jonathan Greenblatt in charge of the internet!#BanTheADL pic.twitter.com/xtkZXcgloI

— Keith Woods (@KeithWoodsYT) September 4, 2023

The ADL calls the fact that it doesn’t like free speech a “misconception” in its official Myths & Facts About ADL:

Free Speech

Misconception: “ADL is attempting to infringe on freedom of speech and liberty on social media and crowdfunding platforms.”

FACT: This is false. ADL produces research documenting the challenge of antisemitic and extremist content across social media and demonstrating how major platforms are failing to adequately protect targets.

While speech – including hate speech – is largely protected from government regulation, private platforms are not obligated to tolerate hate speech and are well within their right to implement policies that prohibit such activities.

So as you can see, the ADL is against freedom of speech—it thinks it should be nonexistent on social media platforms.

VDARE TV

VDARE TV often features Peter Brimelow, a white supremacist who runs the racist, anti-immigration site VDARE, which publishes writing by white supremacists such as Jared Taylor of American Renaissance, Brad Griffin of Occidental Dissent, and Unite the Right organizer Jason Kessler. The VDARE TV YouTube channel has 4,887 subscribers and 213,028 views.

Subsequently, in 2020, VDARE.com was without warning banned from YouTube and a bunch of other platforms.

Similarly, it’s probable that it was ADL pressure that led to Tucker Carlson being fired from Fox. See Defiant Tucker Defends His Discussion Of Demographic Change, Exposes ADL Hypocrisy from 2021, when the ADL called for Carlson to be fired for mentioning the Great Replacement. [Fox stands by Tucker Carlson after ADL calls for his firing, Associated Press, April 12, 2021]

Subsequently, however, earlier this year, Carlson actually was fired, which is why, below, he and Musk are discussing filing a joint suit against the ADL:

Elon and Tucker discussing filing a joint lawsuit for defamation against the ironically named "Anti-Defamation League".