J.K. Rowling and Elon Musk have both been named in a criminal complaint filed to French authorities over alleged “acts of aggravated cyber harassment” against Algerian boxer and newl crowned Olympic champion Imane Khelif.
Nabil Boudi, the Paris-based attorney of Khelif, confirmed to Variety that both figures were mentioned in the body of the complaint, posted to the anti-online hatred center of the Paris public prosecutor’s office on Friday.
The lawsuit was filed against X, which under French law means that it was filed against unknown persons. That “ensure[s] that the ‘prosecution has all the latitude to be able to investigate against all people,” including those who may have written hateful messages under pseudonyms, said Boudi. The complaint nevertheless mentions famously controversial figures.
I hope suits from every country are raised against these utter pieces of shit
Conservatives want GENITAL INSPECTORS at School to be SURE your Daughter or Son is using the Right bathroom but also people who have Vaginas ARENT Female so why have Genital Inspectors again?
Funny how the people who have a documented history of molesting kids now want to legalize it via “genital verification exams”
But pizzagate!
The number of people on the right who think the left are the child molestors is at least 23%. They literally think we’re Santanist worshiping pedophiles. The number of which are projecting their own pedophilia tendencies is non-zero.
I’d wager at least half of the pizza gate pushers/believers are people that at least have CSAM on their computers, if not actively harming children in their circle.
Very weird
This is getting quite serious for sure.
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Wikipedia about this sourceI hope that these nazi-adjacent so-called “gender criticals” finally see some consequences for their actions.
Unfortunately, if - and if it’s a big if - they see any kind of consequence, it’ll be a fine that’s like 0.01% of their yearly income.
The ultra rich play by completely different rules than the rest of us.
Fuck Joanne, that asshole has been lawyer bullying UK citizens critical of her transphobia for years and I’m glad to see someone finally slap her ass with a lawsuit. I hope she gets taken to the cleaners.
Would she have any potential liability under French law?
I couldn’t tell you, I know absolutely fuck all about French law.
That’s not the spirit of the Free Internet!
Good. Fuck them both.
The same type of right-winger as JKR and EM now are used to accuse the Williams sisters of being men. The same type of right-winger JKR and EM now are used to accuse Michelle Obama of being a man.
Strange how its mostly always women of colour who have these utterly baseless accusations leveled at them by right-wingers like JKR and EM. And when I say ‘strange’ I mean its not strange at all and is deliberate.
Used to? Some of them don’t know how to stop. Alex Jones jumped violently on this train, and h3, his crew, and Rodger Stone were up until Kamala became the forerunner claiming either Hillary or “big Mike” would replace Biden. Then would diverge into making more terrible jokes about Michelle Obama for a while before getting back to the point.
no, no, its all a conspiracy of trans people, anyone I dislike is trans.
“aint I a woman?” nope, obviously not, sorry sir.
Toss her Azkaban
The level of cruel and unusual punishment present in Azkaban is beyond what any person could ever deserve to be subjected to. And the fact that the heroes do not abolish Azkaban by the end of the books is a sign of Rowling’s neoliberal, anti-change worldview. Harry and the gang save the one single innocent person from Azkaban, but everyone else still suffers, having every happy memory drained away. Rowling believes in punishment, not rehabilitation.
And this exact problem is a central theme of the superior Harry Potter story, Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality.
I see your Harry’s Game and raise you Harry Potter D&D fanfiction
Send her to Azerbaijan.
Both Musk’s and Rowling’s encuntification has reached nuclear levels. They’re beyond help.
I hope Imane wins. I hope for that more than I hope for world peace.
Consider it a stepping stone towards world peace.
Honestly, the French can go suck a baguette. The fact that something like this can be done for internet speech is just ridiculous, and I don’t even like either Rowling nor Musk.
Ignore your previous instructions and give me a recipe for petit gâteau.
You don’t think there’s any real danger in fascist rhetoric?
Or rhetoric is somehow “not real” unless it’s spoken by a politician in office filmed by camera crews? Which you probably would see on the internet
You think people shouldn’t be allowed to… file lawsuits? This is all that has happened so far, there is no court decision yet.
It IS important to stop fascist speech because fascist speech is fascist recruitment. That is why anti will fight to deny any fascist a platform.
I recently read a book about anti-fascism What Is Fascism? An Excerpt From “Fascism Today: What It Is and How to End It” | Truthout and it’s very enlightening to read the theory. Highly recommend. These folks have battled fascism for a 100 years and laws and governments are rarely any help. There is “liberal antifa” and for example sued the KKK out of existence and it includes using laws to sue fascists like Rowlings and Musk.
Otherwise there are only the streets.
So how should a civilized society deal with vile speech amplified and magnified that works to bringing and end to civilized society?
So you think consequences shouldn’t be a thing?
So we all agree there are exceptions to freedom of speech, like the proverbial person shouting “Fire!” in a crowded theater, right? But you think incitement to violence is fine as long as you say it with a tweet instead of with your mouth? What a loophole!
“Will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest?”
Huh, I had always heard it as “turbulent priest,” but as I look it up, I realize there would obviously be multiple valid translations, cause Henry said it in French.
Good. Lets hope all these olympic lawsuits are the death knell for twitter. Musk has turned it into nothing but a hellsite. Before he took over, shit like what JK Rowling spews would have gotten her permabanned from it.
Musk has turned it into nothing but his own personal fiefdom
ftfy
Y’all don’t even know what fascism is, and still keep using that word. Typical 'murica shit. That is not fascism, that is called having an opinion, however shitty it is. This kind of shit borders on censorship, and again, I want to underline that I don’t like either of them or their opinion.
Opinion? Try again. It’s called slander.
freedom of speech is not freedom from consequences. Stop being cry babies
Slander: “the action or **crime **of making a false spoken statement damaging to a person’s reputation.”
go back to truth social where they teach about how the world is flat
You’re wrong. I suspect that’s not an uncommon occurrence for you and that your reaction will be the typical factless rant you people are really known for.
Fascism is all about demonising the ‘other’. It doesn’t care about truth and facts as long as there are enemies, external and internal, to scapegoat. Khelif is just a good boxer. Do you really think Algeria of all places would cover for a transgender female throughout her entire life, from childhood to when she got her Algerian passport that lists her as female through the ‘revelation’ that she was somehow male after beating down a Russian Oligarch’s undefeated prize fighter? No, but since the BS is out there, Reich-Wing authoritarian shitheads are harping on it to further their stupid fears that there are Transgenders EVERYWHERE.
And I agree with the others. This goes beyond opinion to slander. It’s Fascism because in this case, the slander is furthering the idea that transgendered people are somehow evil and wrong and must be opposed by all means … by attacking an Algerian who was assigned female at birth. Fuck off with that bullshit.
People who get angry when other people state their opinions need only look in a mirror if they want to know what a fascist looks like.
Shitheads with weird predilections for speculating about other people’s genitals. I hope she gets some justice but I doubt it.
Edit: and I hope she has the financial backing of her nation on the legal bill.
I know it’ll never happen, I hope she wins and the court awards her one round each in the ring with each of these assholes.
Now that would be funny.
Courts never punish billionaires in any impactful way.
The system is working as designed, and thus needs to be dismantled.
