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So they stress tested Yaccarino’s “this can definitely never happen” statements.
Something Twitter should have done themselves if they didn’t want to be embarrassed.
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Something Twitter should have done themselves if they didn’t want to be embarrassed.
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oh boy a jewish organization that was created to keep a pedophile free or a jewish organization created by pedophiles to cover for pedophiles, i cant decide which is worse!
The correct answer is RACISM. RACISM is the worst.
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These dumb statements only happen because of liberalism being hegemonic.
A real answer would be:
Sir this is a free speech focused platform, in a society people will have extreme beliefs, feel free to debate them and point them wrong or report them if the content is illegal under the law of the US.
I can go on Shitter and call for the expropriation of the wealthy and nothing happens, even though that cannot occur without significant state violence.
Now I understand that might be based
But at the same time we cannot allow these triggered shitlibs to determine which platforms die and live based on what offends Jews the most, basically
We dun care
One people among many
Sorry for your misfortunes
We still dun care feel free to seethe at the online nazis and do totalen krieg against the anime avis
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I’ll make one more analogy for the road:
Once upon a time, a long long time ago (12 years ago in fact) I remember getting highly outraged on Tesla’s behalf that a TV programme called Top Gear had misrepresented and smeared the amazing Tesla Roadster, which they had obviously done maliciously out of hatred for electric cars that would one day threaten their piston-head careers. An agenda!
I was invested in that, I didn’t know who Musk was back then but I was glad when Tesla sued the BBC. They lost. Badly.
Because although Top Gear did use the car unrealistically, getting it to run out of power in just 55 miles, and overly dramatizing the event showing it being pushed back to the pits… it baaically did happen. They may have exaggerated a bit, but they did find what they set out to find, whether it seemed fair or not. It was right that Tesla lost the lawsuit.
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I like to think I’ve learned from that and can be a bit more circumspect. In this issue I see people who are highly invested in.. what.. racism? Wanting X to slap down these irritating journalists who have an agenda. Same applies though - X should lose.
Once upon a time, a long long time ago (12 years ago in fact) I remember getting highly outraged on Tesla’s behalf that a TV programme called Top Gear had misrepresented and smeared the amazing Tesla Roadster, which they had obviously done maliciously out of hatred for electric cars that would one day threaten their piston-head careers. An agenda!
I was invested in that, I didn’t know who Musk was back then but I was glad when Tesla sued the BBC. They lost. Badly.
Because although Top Gear did use the car unrealistically, getting it to run out of power in just 55 miles, and overly dramatizing the event showing it being pushed back to the pits… it baaically did happen. They may have exaggerated a bit, but they did find what they set out to find, whether it seemed fair or not. It was right that Tesla lost the lawsuit.
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I like to think I’ve learned from that and can be a bit more circumspect. In this issue I see people who are highly invested in.. what.. racism? Wanting X to slap down these irritating journalists who have an agenda. Same applies though - X should lose.
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When NBC did something similar, rigging crashes to claim that a GM pickup was unsafe, they were forced to settle as it was looking dire for them. The issue will be whether it's more similar to the BBC suit than it is to the NBC suit.
The real issue will be whether or not it even gets past a motion to dismiss and into discovery, though, because that has a high likelihood of being very damaging to MMFA. If it gets in front of a jury, their financial burn rate will be exorbitant.
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Well that’s the point isn’t it. The same MO as Trump and other billionaire elites. You have infinite money to burn on lawyers, so it doesn’t matter how ridiculous your complaint is, the other side has to settle, and then you “win”. Or just bankrupt them, if you feel like it.
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It probably won't be that expensive if it gets tossed on a 12(b)(6) motion, but discovery is likely to be pricey, and an actual jury trial ludicrous.
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What you saw was entertainment not car reviews. there is/was a great write up at the time (2006?) from when they had a Lancia Stratos kit car on written by the owner explaining how they went out of their way to break it.
Top gear, vaguely car based entertainment that evolved into 2 cunts and Chris Harris.
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Well, it's supposed to be up to the law. If he hasn't stated a claim for relief, it gets tossed. Where I'm seeing the difficulty on TI is that while truth is, somewhat surprisingly, not a defense in Texas, you still have to plead that:
- A contract exists
- A third party willfully and intentionally interfered with that contract; and
- You suffered damages as a result.
However, you can know something will cause parties to cancel a contract and even intend that if your speech is protected or privileged. For instance, if someone hires a consultant to investigate the behavior of a contractual partner and the consultant reports that the partner has been swindling them, and advises that they terminate the contract, the fact that the consultant knows or even intends that result is irrelevant.
In the case of MMFA, they'll argue that the conduct described in the complaint does not state a claim for TI even if their statements were not true, and even if they actively hoped to get advertisers to leave the platform, because it was still protected by the First Amendment and their primary and legitimate purpose was news coverage, even if it did in fact cause advertisers to leave the platform.
I will assume they led with their strongest claim and the other two, business disparagement and interference with prospective economic advantage, are in the opinion of whoever drafted the complaint even shakier. At a first glance, I'm not sure I agree with this and the business disparagement claim may be slightly stronger.
Interference with "prospective" advantages is in practice often nearly impossible to prove so I'm not even going to talk about that.
MMFA may even send a Rule 11 letter, i.e. warning that should the suit terminate in their favor, they intend to seek costs and fees for frivolous litigation.
They may even try to invoke Texas's SLAPP statute, even though there is case law from the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals fairly clearly stating it doesn't apply under the Erie doctrine. Klocke v. Watson, 936 F.3d 240 (5th Cir. 2019).
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I used to work alongside Media Matters when I was still active in my DNC days.
Even back then, they were fucking scum - willfully misrepresenting shit to fit an agenda and not giving a single solitary fuck who they damaged in the process - and make no mistake - the shit these cockstains have done is enough to rattle even more inveterate lefties. They absolutely do not, in any capacity, deserve the benefit of the doubt.
Assuming little has changed since 2008, I can virtually guarantee they did this on behalf of the government, and if we're lucky, that getting exposed will be the real prize. Media Matters burning to the fucking ground would simply be a delightful possibility.
Even back then, they were fucking scum - willfully misrepresenting shit to fit an agenda and not giving a single solitary fuck who they damaged in the process - and make no mistake - the shit these cockstains have done is enough to rattle even more inveterate lefties. They absolutely do not, in any capacity, deserve the benefit of the doubt.
Assuming little has changed since 2008, I can virtually guarantee they did this on behalf of the government, and if we're lucky, that getting exposed will be the real prize. Media Matters burning to the fucking ground would simply be a delightful possibility.
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That, IMO, is the real issue at stake. It seems like USG has been shifting media control efforts for political use to NGOs and private companies for ages, so having some part of that superstructure be exposed and collapse will be hilarious.
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Come on. You can't not find this funny. Lmao.
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I don't think Musk's lawyers are retarded enough to be late and gay on vital filings, or go on livestreams to talk about their own case live, or to take a case in a field of law they haven't touched in 40 years.
Well, I'd hope they aren't, but then again he is apparently suing in texas... just watch for any document signed by one Beard, stranger things have happened.
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democrat affiliated propaganda organisations like MM aren't exactly poor and starved for cash lol they can afford to hire plenty of lawyers and go through plenty of court dates, no problem
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I hate it when you say Black Media Matters then this cabal of white people come up from nowhere and say Media Matters. Y'all just being racist and shiiiiit
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That is so cringeworthy, I refused to believe it and had to check it out for myself to ensure it was really tweeted by Elon (or anyone over 14 years of age).
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Honestly, I hope this is the first plank of rot that comes up that really exposes the rot of these NGO's given how many acts of fraud we know about that have gone unprosecuted relating to certain NGO's.
But you know the scary part? some even receive government funding AND try to help Antifa, then sue to shut anybody up reporting on that fact. Canada's anti-hate network is one of those organizations and were the source of #Hategate in Canada(which the media tried to bury). now it is public record.
the Short description of hategate is that CAHN used unverified sources from far-left Twitter/X trolls that essentially used by the police and the government to invoke the emergencies act during the freedom convoy in 2022.
At this point, a lawsuit and a fraud investigation into media matters might send a message, but I doubt it will and certainly would hinder anything like Hategate from happening in the US. however, you guys down there have a nice bill that prevents anything from ever coming of it if anybody tried, while ours can be suspended by government on a whim, and all it took was a pandemic to prove that.
Why is it that a lot of NGO scandals always involve X in some way?
But you know the scary part? some even receive government funding AND try to help Antifa, then sue to shut anybody up reporting on that fact. Canada's anti-hate network is one of those organizations and were the source of #Hategate in Canada(which the media tried to bury). now it is public record.
the Short description of hategate is that CAHN used unverified sources from far-left Twitter/X trolls that essentially used by the police and the government to invoke the emergencies act during the freedom convoy in 2022.
At this point, a lawsuit and a fraud investigation into media matters might send a message, but I doubt it will and certainly would hinder anything like Hategate from happening in the US. however, you guys down there have a nice bill that prevents anything from ever coming of it if anybody tried, while ours can be suspended by government on a whim, and all it took was a pandemic to prove that.
Why is it that a lot of NGO scandals always involve X in some way?
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I was going to crop that retweet/comment for the cringe factor, but then I read the reply and had myself a very reserved laugh which fell roughly at the halfway point between a giggle and a chuckle that lasted for a good 15-20 seconds while I rested my head in my hand with my eyes closed. I think I might like Musk now, who knew it was such a simple matter to win over my heart...
Also, how many billions do I need to make before I can afford his hair plugs?