Civil Liberties

Congrats To Elon Musk: I Didn’t Think You Had It In You To File A Lawsuit This Stupid. But, You Crazy Bastard, You Did It!

from the to-save-speech-we-need-to-censor-speech dept

Tue, Nov 21st 2023 09:27am - Mike Masnick

So, yesterday we covered Elon Musk’s ridiculous censorial threat to sue Media Matters “the split second the court opens on Monday.” Of course, as we noted, you can file lawsuits 24/7. And yet, as the courts opened on Monday, there was nothing. As mentioned in the original post, I was away from internet access for most of Monday, and when I finally got back online I was told there was still no lawsuit.

But, then, on Monday evening, the lawsuit finally came, and it was glorious. Gloriously stupid.

Honestly, this feels like what you get when you have a rich but legally ignorant dude who announces on a Friday that there will be a lawsuit on Monday and finally finds some terrible lawyers who are actually willing to file something just to live up to that promise.

It’s not a good lawsuit. It’s barely even a lawsuit at all. ... Let’s start at the top.

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From the comments:

Matt Waters November 21, 2023 at 6:23 pm

Re:
The probable one who wrote it clerked for Scalia and was {Solicitor} General of Texas.

https://fedsoc.org/contributors/judd-stone