• Aatube@kbin.social
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    7 months ago

    Wouldn’t the law only make clear they’ll win if it fits the law’s definition of harm?

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      7 months ago

      The law’s defintion of harm is extremely broad. Charlie Jane Anders has a good discussion of this in The Internet Is About to Get a Lot Worse:

      “This clause is so vaguely defined that attorneys general can absolutely claim that queer content violates it — and they don’t even need to win these lawsuits in order to prevail. They might not even need to file a lawsuit, in fact. The mere threat of an expensive, grueling legal battle will be enough to make almost every Internet platform begin to scrub anything related to queer people.”

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        7 months ago

        Hmm, I was under the impression that Attorneys General could already sue whomever they want, success rates aside. Is that not the case?