Discussion for article #237691
“And if you’re thinking, well come on, that doesn’t seem like that big a problem, well, congratulations on your white penis,” he said.
Thanks, John. You would have thought that my wife would have remembered to congratulate me on my white penis on Fathers’ Day, but no, I had to hear it from the host of a comedy news show instead.
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Oh, that and John Oliver is national treasure.
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CA just got on the revenge porn bandwagon, but it took the money angle to bring that case home. The guy was posting the photos, charging to see them, and then offering the women the opportunity to take them down for more money. More photos posted? More money to take them down. The big question, as I recall, was if any of that was actually illegal. I think it was the blackmail aspect of the scheme that finally won the day. Needless to say, the perp was totally mystified on why this was a problem - he was raking in the big bucks.
Meanwhile, the Supreme Court ruled that because Anthony Elonis made death threats to his wife online (instead of leaving them under the windshield wiper on her car) it’s free speech instead of a criminal act.
I don’t want to even think about the decades it’s going to take to undo the damage done by the Roberts court.
Can’t really blame Roberts for this one. It was a 7-2 ruling, (well 7.5 to 1.5, Alito both concurred and dissented,) and the 2 were Allito and Thomas. I think Elonis is pretty loathesome, but the court got this one legally right. It’s probably a good reason to change the laws.
I’m not a lawyer type, so I’ll take your word that the decision made sense. (Just please tell me that it wasn’t based on his “But, I’m a rap artist!” defense and there was another reason.)
I stand by my larger point that the Roberts court sucks, though!
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I can totally get behind the whole Roberts court sucks idea.
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