Attorney Goes On Pro-Hitler, Antisemitic Social Media Screed, Immediately Loses Her Job
Some really reprehensible stuff here.
Elon ‘Free Speech Absolutist’ Musk Threatens To Sue Nonprofit For Pointing Out He Seems To Like Hate Speech
He's about as good at free speech as he is with rockets.
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Turns Out, The Hate Speech Defenders Aren’t All That Good At Speaking
That's what happens when you win all your arguments by relying on caps lock and the letter N.
Morning Docket: 06.10.22
* There may be some turbulence for JetBlue -- an antitrust suit was just given the green light. [Reuters] * Massachusetts just made it easier for immigrants to drive to work. [AP] * Planning on getting that JD to find Mx. Right? Women share stories of what it's like dating as a lawyer. At least they try to. There are a lot of men in the comments. [Reddit] * A congressional candidate from South Carolina is calling for treason executions and imprisoning the parents of LGBTQ children. Gotta love our lax hate speech jurisprudence! [LGBTQ Nation]
So I Guess ‘Small Government’ Now Includes Compelling Corporate Speech?
I can't believe they suspended me! All I said was literally the most hateful thing I could think of about Mexicans!
Morning Docket: 10.05.21
* Whistleblower claims Facebook encourages hate speech to make money. Might explain why yesterday was so much calmer. [The Verge] * Todd Akin died of cancer. I thought that the body had ways of maintaining health in cases of "legitimate illness." [NBC News] * Grimes's ex's company ordered to pay former employee $137M because of racism. [NBC News] * Pfizer's COVID vaccine is very effective in the first six months, but it drops off after that. Relatable. [Washington Post] * The Pandora papers have opened a box of... you get it. Greek mythology joke. Here's a summary of why it's important. [CNN]
Steno’s AI Tool Steps Ahead Of The Pack
Transcript Genius is a ‘very well-behaved’ partner.
Spanish Government Uses Hate Speech Law To Arrest Critic Of The Spanish Government
From the shocked-SHOCKED-to-find-such-a-predictable-use-of-a-bad-law dept.
Non-Sequiturs: 10.08.15
* Even Bill Cosby cannot escape the power and force of the American judicial system. [Gawker] * A #tbt look at a bygone era when people took honest-to-goodness lunch breaks. [Slate] * Let the fanfic commence! Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg tells of the time Justice Scalia serenaded her. [Huffington Post] * More people pile on Mary Jo White. [Above the Law] * A primer on the legal issues that will dominate the next year. [Pacific Standard] * The British legal system is going to war over offensive tweets. [Overlawyered] * The closing you use at the end of your email can say a lot about you. [Daily Lawyer Tips]
Non-Sequiturs: 09.12.12
* Jury agrees that Girls Gone Wild founder Joe Francis slandered casino mogul Steve Wynn by saying he threatened to kill Francis over his gambling debt. That’ll be $20 million. Or, Francis can just show Wynn his boobs. [Huffington Post] * Moonbeam Jerry and Chris “Destroyer of Idiots” Christie are feuding. It’s just like Biggie v. Tupac, but with hot air instead of unregistered firearms. [Daily Dolt] * Dude spies on his wife in their own home for the better part of a year. Now they’re getting divorced. Mother, tell your husband not to spy my way. [USA Today] * Judging from the intensity of the ATL Fantasy Football league after just one week of play, a lot of lawyers really wish they had this job. [Sports Illustrated] * Thank God there were no leaf blowers were involved, or one of these guys may have napalmed the whole neighborhood. [Legal Juice] * Congratulations to Goodwin Procter on a notable hire out of the Solicitor General’s Office: Willy Jay, who has argued before SCOTUS almost a dozen times. [Goodwin Procter] * Just a reminder that Elie is speaking in front of the Anti-Defamation League’s Young Lawyers division tomorrow night at the beautiful New York offices of Arnold & Porter. One of his topics is “why you don’t want me deciding your hate speech,” so at the very least, it should be lively. [Anti-Defamation League]
Not Even Batman Can Stop Nasty Anonymous Commenting (In Fact, He Is Causing the Problem…)
Even Batman cannot save his critics from anonymous commenting…
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Non-Sequiturs: 06.22.12
* Welcome to the right side of history, former anti-gay marriage guy. [New York Times] * Protecting free speech has to be more important than stopping hate speech. [National Post vai Overlawyered] * Netflix is subject to the Americans with Disabilities Act. Seems unfair to me, people are already disabled, I don’t see why you have to make them deal with Netflix too. [Boston Globe] * This Tony Parker lawsuit following the Chris Brown fight is right out of Eddie Murphy’s Raw where people start suing Eddie for “sprained eyes.” (If you haven’t seen Raw in a while, click the link. So funny.) [Daily Mail] * This law would make it a crime for a teenager to breakup with his girlfriend via text. That sounds like a great idea. [Volokh Conspiracy] * See my vest, see my vest, made of lizards I’m smuggled to the U.S. [Legal Juice] After the jump, you really have to check out Brian Cuban having an aneurism over Lindsay Lohan’s continued freedom...