@MrEricLuddland@Awk20000 California has the strongest Anti-SLAPP laws in the country. These laws are designed to stop powerful people from using lawsuits to silence critics.
If "AI Slop" is your best defense you're FUCKED.
@MrEricLuddland@Awk20000 How does he bypass the Actual Malice standard (NYT v. Sullivan) to prove they knew they were lying vs. just having a shitty (protected) opinion?
How about Anti-SLAPP motion? If a judge rules it’s protected political opinion, Hasan is legally required to pay entire legal bill.
Large investors aren't scooping up houses from families.
They barely factor in the single-family housing market at all.
Yet both parties want to scapegoat investors to distract from the real problem:
Too little supply, thanks to government.
@agitpopcorn@jamjks@Awk20000 L take. The Federal Government has already said its a fact that the state government failed in their oversight and investigative jobs. There are countless articles in the past fron whistleblowers and even politicians that claimed this was happening.
At least 64 people have been killed in a brutal attack on a Catholic parish in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Read here ➡️ https://t.co/7P0fv43qoZ
#Catholic#Congo#Africa
Covered the "cancel culture" wars for a long time. Conservative opposition to "cancel culture" was often — though not always — about companies canceling people over speech that was NOT actually objectionable/immoral because those companies believed their customers and the broader public were further left than they actually were, or because their younger employees were arguing it was literally a matter of safety (see: NYT vs Tom Cotton).
Jimmy Kimmel told a dumb joke that actually made his network look bad, and not just in the minds of Very Online ideologues.
ABC *does* have to operate in the public interest per the FCC, which should, of course, apply threats consistently. (We probably should change and modernize the law.) Jimmy Kimmel *did* make the network look bad. And, yes, I'm sure it helped Nexstar's decision to pressure Disney that a merger was pending.
Clay Higgins, Pam Bondi, and online sleuths trying to report tasteless jokes/comments that aren't literal death celebrations — that stuff is hypocritical and dangerous. I suspect some of the overreacting will fade as emotions cool, given how traumatic what happened last week was. But some of it will probably stick. The admin's policy towards people like Ozturk and schools like Columbia has unduly chilled speech.
Not great at all. But Colbert, Kimmel, and their networks coasted on tasteless and sloppy content for years. The market was going to catch up with them. Will all this change C-suite decisions about Trump coverage? Probably. And yet the scale of the threats here is dramatically different, and that should not be downplayed. Look up how the Equality Act that virtually every Dem supports and that media loves would curtail speech. Look up how the Obama admin wielded Title IX. Look up the GEC. Look up the case of Google and @FDRLST. I can barely capture the breadth of the left's decade-long public-private censorship campaign. There's no comparison as of *right now* between the action and reaction.
This reminds me of immigration. Dems flood the country with millions of new people in three years, Republicans react with policies that are sometimes very necessary and sometimes very bad, but the media and the left remain disproportionately interested in the bad reactions.
It's apples and oranges, or perhaps a better way to put is bad apples to bad oranges. And the social media incentive structures that ungird so much of our political discourse now are making it all much worse.
Heather Cox Richardson, the most popular individual political Substack writer, is spreading utter misinformation about Tyler Robinson to her followers. This piece got over 7,000 likes. She goes on to accuse right-wingers of "using Kirk's murder to prop up their fictional world."
@KimIversenShow There’s a difference between "cancel culture" and "consequence culture." Celebrating the death of someone you disagree with isn't a political opinion; it's a celebration of violence. Losing your job for that isn't about being "canceled" for your views. It's a consequence.