Genocide Anti-SLAPP Suit
"Another libel bully" - Rebecca Watson
How do things like this even get started in California? California has a solid anti-SLAPP statute, the plaintiff here could end up paying his legal bill and those of the defendant.
Benjamin Netanyahu has an International Criminal Court warrant for war crimes.
Amnesty International has concluded that Israel is conducting genocide in Gaza.
There’s no end to credible sources calling the Gaza campaign ethnic cleansing.
There’s no room to dispute the facts at the international level.
Describing someone offering support for the Netanyahu regime as supporting genocide might make that supporter angry, but it in no way crosses the line regarding the facts of the matter. This Klein person certainly qualifies as a “limited purpose public figure”, which means he has even less access to claiming libel.
SLAPP suits can be enormously expensive, drawn out affairs, even in states that have good laws regarding this sort of abuse of process. Having recently understood Sam Altman’s Predictions … there are going to be a lot fewer white collar jobs … and AI will be much more capable in terms of litigation … we could see courts flooded with opportunistic activity in this area.
It’s just another future that was predicted in Distraction …