DRStamm

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[–] DRStamm@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If that were true, the US would still have segregated lunch counters, grocery stores, and private buses. The Supreme Court may be getting us on the way there one day, but right now the only way that private businesses are allowed to discriminate against protected classes is to call the output work a "creative expression" like website design, floral arrangement, or cake decoration, and that's from the 303 Creative case.

Besides, how would it make sense if a company could bar you as a customer for being gay, but be compelled to employ you?

[–] DRStamm@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago

"Daunting?" Nah. They'll have fun playing pretend while they use their non-existent authority to try to bully others to let them further enrich themselves.Their success won't be measured in efficiency, but in lulz.

[–] DRStamm@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Because social media is just that: media. They're platforms for ads and marketing that are more akin to broadcast media with a parasocial interactive twist. Contrast that with social networking which facilitates connections between actual people.

At some point in the last two decades, those distinctions have blurred, often to great shareholder benefit.

[–] DRStamm@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Some of those "charged in a few states" cases are actually federal indictments. Federal indictments have to be charged in a specific federal court system district (6th Amendment).

The classified documents case in Florida? Federal. The January 6th/election obstruction case? That's so federal it was brought in the DC circuit.