Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt
This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is an anonymous comment on our post about Elon Musk funding a SLAPP suit against Disney, responding piece by piece to another commenter:
According to MM, every lawsuit by someone right of Bernie is SLAPP"
No. It's just for whatever reason, the right wing is far more comfortable engaging in SLAPP suits. Realistically, it's because their platform (when they have one) doesn't stand up to scrutiny, which is why they have to court the religious nut contingent.
Well, except for the HUNDREDS of laws regulating who and how you can fire people, many of them around discrimination.
Lucky for her, she gets to sue in a blue state where some of such things actually exist. Even in Cali, there are no laws that demand a worker be able to taint their employer's public image with fascism. So even a blue state where some worker protections exist, they're not going to help her.
Generally because these types of firings are based on outrageousness of the speech, not the plain political affiliation. (This bias has also been going badly for Disney)
Being pro-plague and pro-genocide is pretty outrageous to polite society. Just because those things have been normalized in your circles doesn't make that any less so. Historical mass support doesn't make the Nazis any less outrageous.
I'm not 100% positive there's a law against just straight firing anyone who registers with particular political party, but I suspect there probably is.
Even if we assume this was the case, she wasn't fired for registering with a particular political party. She was fired for being pro-plague and pro-genocide. Public perception being paramount to her employer's success, said employer has every right to decide not to enable this value system.
Lastly, there's the fact that Disney made the very strange choice to slander Carano on the way out. That is CLEARLY actionable...which is why no one ever makes statements like that.
Facts not in evidence.
She is unlikely to get her job back
Agreed.
she is very likely to get a huge settlement.
Facts not in evidence.
Yeah....except he WON those. Just like SLAPP, it's not frivolous" just cuz you don't like it.
Successful SLAPP suits have happened. All you're doing here is demonstrating demonstrating ignorance of the fact that outcomes in our legal system are improved for the wealthy by virtue of the fact that they have more resources to both shape and participate in the legal system.
Disney is not Gawker. That advantage in disparity for the aggressor doesn't exist here as it did in Thiel's Gawker suit.
Lol, at the rate Disney is going Musk might be able to get controlling interest by the end of the year.
Pure copium. Carano is going to get smacked down, and you're going to be back here claiming you have a First Amendment right to force everyone to play nice with Nazis.
But dang you're a flaming hypocrite.
No. You're actually just too stupid to understand what you don't understand.
In second place, it's SonicAnatidae with a comment about the court dismissing Yelp's lawsuit against Texas:
Complete Garbage.
There is literally no way to reconcile the 2 stances presented. The actions speak for themselves.
- It is pursuing Yelp even though it conceded that the Second Notice is accurate, even though it agreed at the hearing on the preliminary injunction that the First notice is literally true," and even though no other attorney general that initially complained about the First Notice has sued Yelp.
- To be clear, the Court is not convinced that Paxton acted entirely in good faith in bringing this case against Yelp; still, Yelp has not provided enough concrete evidence of his subjective motivations to prove otherwise.
For editor's choice on the insightful side, we start out with a comment from That One Guy about Jim Jordan's claims of the White House pressuring Amazon:
Trust me', said the liar
Ah yes, because nothing says this is a legitimate claim/story based upon actual evidence' like cherry-picking quotes out of moderately-redacted emails, only providing select screenshots rather than the source material and presenting evidence' in the wrong chronological order.
The icing on the cake however has got to be that even the emails he presented shoot his argument in the back by demonstrating that Amazon seemed to be far more concerned about negative articles Buzzfeed might put forth than whatever threats' the government was supposedly slinging around.
Next, we've got a short and sweet comment (which could also go on the funny side) from smb about the cops charging a teen with murder because one of them died shortly after restraining him:
It's obvious that this death was due to excited delirium".
Over on the funny side, our first place winner is blakestacey with a useful little joke:
A narcissist, an idiot, a moralist, a racist, a homophobe, and an absolute buffoon walk into a bar.
The bartender says, Hi, Senator."
In second place, it's back to the Elon-funded Disney lawsuit for an anonymous comment:
When is the moron going to post that obviously Disney is a generic" company and therefore must accept whatever their workers say?
For editor's choice on the funny side, we start out with one more anonymous comment on that post, this time in response to someone expressing doubt that Elon would ever be able to buy Disney:
That's because you live in reality. If you immerse yourself in a world where pizza places keep child slaves in nonexistent basements, and where the mass shooting kitty litter is for the furries, you'll soon find reality much less constraining.
Finally, we head back to our post about Jim Jordan, in which our title accused him of having cried wolf" so many times, for one more anonymous comment:
So what you're saying is, if only Jim Jordan hadn't blown all his credibility on other nonsense, he would still have some credibility left to blow on this.
That's all for this week, folks!