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In reply to the discussion: Steve Bannon vows MAGA will destroy 'Gestapo' FBI: 'We are a threat to the American state' [View all]BumRushDaShow
(128,844 posts)72. They are pretty much permitted to say anything they want
unless it is found to be slanderous (and that is often hard to prove - although you see what it has taken to do so with Alex Jones and the Sandy Hook parents to get as far as they did) or is akin to making terroristic threats/threats of violence that might be reasonably enough to be carried out (vs "reporting about" such).
What might be more instructive is how Dominion Systems handles these guys based on their defamation suits against Ghouliani, the Kooky Kraken Krew, and the Faux Snooze RW loons.
Defamation Suit About Election Falsehoods Puts Fox on Its Heels
The suit, filed by Dominion Voting Systems, could be one of the most consequential First Amendment cases in a generation.
By Jeremy W. Peters
Aug. 13, 2022
In the weeks after President Donald J. Trump lost the 2020 election, the Fox Business host Lou Dobbs claimed to have tremendous evidence that voter fraud was to blame. That evidence never emerged but a new culprit in a supposed scheme to rig the election did: Dominion Voting Systems, a maker of election technology whose algorithms, Mr. Dobbs said, were designed to be inaccurate. Maria Bartiromo, another host on the network, falsely stated that Nancy Pelosi has an interest in this company. Jeanine Pirro, a Fox News personality, speculated that technical glitches in Dominions software could have affected thousands of absentee mail-in ballots. Those unfounded accusations are now among the dozens cited in Dominions defamation lawsuit against the Fox Corporation, which alleges that Fox repeatedly aired false, far-fetched and exaggerated allegations about Dominion and its purported role in a plot to steal votes from Mr. Trump.
Those bogus assertions made day after day, including allegations that Dominion was a front for the communist government in Venezuela and that its voting machines could switch votes from one candidate to another are at the center of the libel suit, one of the most extraordinary brought against an American media company in more than a generation. First Amendment scholars say the case is a rarity in libel law. Defamation claims typically involve a single disputed statement. But Dominions complaint is replete with example after example of false statements, many of them made after the facts were widely known. And such suits are often quickly dismissed, because of the First Amendments broad free speech protections and the high-powered lawyers available to a major media company like Fox.
If they do go forward, they are usually settled out of court to spare both sides the costly spectacle of a trial. But Dominions $1.6 billion case against Fox has been steadily progressing in Delaware state court this summer, inching ever closer to trial. There have been no moves from either side toward a settlement, according to interviews with several people involved in the case. The two companies are deep into document discovery, combing through years of each others emails and text messages, and taking depositions. These people said they expected Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch, who own and control the Fox Corporation, to sit for depositions as soon as this month.
The case threatens a huge financial and reputational blow to Fox, by far the most powerful conservative media company in the country. But legal scholars say it also has the potential to deliver a powerful verdict on the kind of pervasive and pernicious falsehoods and the people who spread them that are undermining the countrys faith in democracy. Were litigating history in a way: What is historical truth? said Lee Levine, a noted First Amendment lawyer who has argued several major media defamation cases. Here youre taking very recent current events and going through a process which, at the end, is potentially going to declare what the correct version of history is.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/13/business/media/fox-dominion-lawsuit-first-amendment.html
The suit, filed by Dominion Voting Systems, could be one of the most consequential First Amendment cases in a generation.
By Jeremy W. Peters
Aug. 13, 2022
In the weeks after President Donald J. Trump lost the 2020 election, the Fox Business host Lou Dobbs claimed to have tremendous evidence that voter fraud was to blame. That evidence never emerged but a new culprit in a supposed scheme to rig the election did: Dominion Voting Systems, a maker of election technology whose algorithms, Mr. Dobbs said, were designed to be inaccurate. Maria Bartiromo, another host on the network, falsely stated that Nancy Pelosi has an interest in this company. Jeanine Pirro, a Fox News personality, speculated that technical glitches in Dominions software could have affected thousands of absentee mail-in ballots. Those unfounded accusations are now among the dozens cited in Dominions defamation lawsuit against the Fox Corporation, which alleges that Fox repeatedly aired false, far-fetched and exaggerated allegations about Dominion and its purported role in a plot to steal votes from Mr. Trump.
Those bogus assertions made day after day, including allegations that Dominion was a front for the communist government in Venezuela and that its voting machines could switch votes from one candidate to another are at the center of the libel suit, one of the most extraordinary brought against an American media company in more than a generation. First Amendment scholars say the case is a rarity in libel law. Defamation claims typically involve a single disputed statement. But Dominions complaint is replete with example after example of false statements, many of them made after the facts were widely known. And such suits are often quickly dismissed, because of the First Amendments broad free speech protections and the high-powered lawyers available to a major media company like Fox.
If they do go forward, they are usually settled out of court to spare both sides the costly spectacle of a trial. But Dominions $1.6 billion case against Fox has been steadily progressing in Delaware state court this summer, inching ever closer to trial. There have been no moves from either side toward a settlement, according to interviews with several people involved in the case. The two companies are deep into document discovery, combing through years of each others emails and text messages, and taking depositions. These people said they expected Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch, who own and control the Fox Corporation, to sit for depositions as soon as this month.
The case threatens a huge financial and reputational blow to Fox, by far the most powerful conservative media company in the country. But legal scholars say it also has the potential to deliver a powerful verdict on the kind of pervasive and pernicious falsehoods and the people who spread them that are undermining the countrys faith in democracy. Were litigating history in a way: What is historical truth? said Lee Levine, a noted First Amendment lawyer who has argued several major media defamation cases. Here youre taking very recent current events and going through a process which, at the end, is potentially going to declare what the correct version of history is.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/13/business/media/fox-dominion-lawsuit-first-amendment.html
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Faygo Kid
Aug 2022
OP
Yeah....... the fascist propaganda minister Goebbels, excuse me Bannon has spoken....
turbinetree
Aug 2022
#1
So we give the man too much credit! Spent force, pissing against the wind. Irrelevant!
Alexander Of Assyria
Aug 2022
#13
Seriously, I'm thinking this fuck is still free to incite and foment treasonous bullshit
msfiddlestix
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#16
If Bannon took a bath, you could dry off what was left of him with a postage stamp.
Aristus
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#9
What's his legal status now? I've lost track of where these clowns stand, they've drug
Frustratedlady
Aug 2022
#6
Oh, yeah. So that was just for the contempt charges. Won't he still have to go through
Frustratedlady
Aug 2022
#21
I can always hope for sedition and conspiracy charges. Seems pretty straight forward from everything
Evolve Dammit
Aug 2022
#71
"reputational blow to Fox"? perhaps. Kudos for Dominion bringing the suit and pending "settlement.
Evolve Dammit
Aug 2022
#73
Bartiromo next? Ingraham? My Dog they are loaded with Cult 45. Carlson worst.
Evolve Dammit
Aug 2022
#83
So he admits he is anti American? By saying he is a threat to the American state?
ColinC
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#25
Anyone like to take bets that Bannon's fingerprints are somewhere in the TopSecret docs?
flying_wahini
Aug 2022
#32
Stevie, Stevie, Stevie, you're playing with the big dogs now. Are will lose a hand if you keep going
ashredux
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#41
he's such a blowhard piece of treasonous shit who REALLY belongs in jail
LymphocyteLover
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Why isn't he arrested for trying to overthrow and threatening our law enforcement agency ?
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#75