The Lincoln Project and sexual harassment
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I don't remember the full details, but some scummy billionaire was called out on a website, by a 3rd party poster. The billionaire sued the website and won, despite later the posts being proven true in criminal court.
From memory, Leonardo DiCaprio played the billionaire in a movie.
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@raphjd
Hmmm... I don't know the movie, but I'm guessing the original incident happened before 1996.Why does that matter?
Because that's when Seection 230 was written into law.
Hmmm... maybe they didn't just pull that law out of their overly large, exceptionally old, pasty-white, "can't even SPELL Internet in 1996" asses?
Maybe some rich, white-owned business didn't like being sued for something they really didn't have any reasonable control over, and decided to swing some bucks the way of those Politician types - you know, the ones who love money... and telling other people what to do - and get some protections in there so it doesn't happen again!
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As always, politicians are whores who ignore the citizenry.
This is the swamp you keep defending.
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The movie was The Wolf of Wall Street.
The courts found Prodigy guilty of libel because they moderated the posts, thus acting as a publisher.
About the same time, there was another lawsuit but the website was deemed a platform, thus not liable, since they did not moderate the posts.
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Apparently, it was known by TLP that Weaver was doing this stuff, since at least June 2020.
This is according to reporting over the last 2 days.
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That is about the time he left the organization... perhaps they just weren't aware of the extent? Or were unaware of the illegal (underage) parts...
I don't know - I'm not really following that story closely, for reasons at the END of this posting...
What I do know is that the organization stands for Conservative Ideals - many of which I agree with - but didn't "sell their soul" to authoritarianism or turn a blind eye to essentially treason in exchange for a Supreme Court judge or two (or three!).
I also know that I'm not one to throw around guilt by association claims or accusations.
If I did, most of the largest Evangelical Christian organizations in the US (not to mention the Catholic Church) would have been burned to the ground by now for the sins of their past leaders... Sins also against children
