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Bethany BlackDefinitely trying to get sued https://www.theonion.com/the-onion-s-exclusive-interview-with-j-k-rowling-1850141221
What I love best about this is that the onion don’t fuck around to find out, they have the receipts that’ll stand up in court and lawyers who know how to best use them.
Nick Xylas@BethanyBlack Oh yeah. I don't believe for a minute they'd have published it if they thought there was a chance they'd be successfully sued. Plus, parody and satire are strongly protected by the libel laws.
Alexandra Lanes@nxylas @BethanyBlack not in England.
@ajlanes @BethanyBlack Since Rowling is in Scotland and The Onion is in the US, I'm not sure how relevant that is. But even in England and Wales, the laws were relaxed a few years ago to make parody and satire pretty much ironclad defences. It's what allowed 2000AD to finally reprint the Judge Dredd stories featuring Ronald McDonald and the Jolly Green Giant, for example.
@nxylas @BethanyBlack the Defamation Act 2013 is the current statutory framework and does not have defences for parody or satire. Since the Onion is in the US it benefits from the US protection from enforcement of foreign defamation judgments that are incompatible with the US Constitution 1st Amendment so there’s not a lot of point suing them. The largest risk is probably to those in England and Wales who repeat (republish) the libel by retweeting of boosting it.
@ajlanes @BethanyBlack Err...that would be me then. Now I have to ask myself whether I want to become a martyr for free speech or not.
@nxylas @BethanyBlack I am only a student lawyer and this is not legal advice. I think Rowling is more likely to go after individuals who make direct statements of their own than those who merely RT or boost.
@ajlanes @BethanyBlack Yes, if anything, she'd probably just send her flying monkeys after me. One of them seems to have found me already on Twitter, where I shared the link, though it was just a mild "wake up, sheeple"-type rebuke, rather than a full-on assault.
Stewart Russell@nxylas @BethanyBlack protected in the US, maybe. Under defamation laws in England, depends how much the wronged party feels they can afford for lawyers
minus9@BethanyBlack The greatest joy is watching the right wing, free speech absolutists spinning in their bigotry. I wonder how many even read the children's books?
jec&@BethanyBlack
> “Why couldn’t you just take your billions of dollars and go away?”
> J.K. Rowling: “And what, take all this hate out on my house staff? I already do that, and it doesn’t help.”
Brutal
> “Why couldn’t you just take your billions of dollars and go away?”
> J.K. Rowling: “And what, take all this hate out on my house staff? I already do that, and it doesn’t help.”
Brutal
@BethanyBlack
> “Do you have any words of encouragement for aspiring transphobes?”
> J.K. Rowling: “Find the time in your day to practice transphobia every day, even if it’s for only 15 minutes.”
lmfao
> “Do you have any words of encouragement for aspiring transphobes?”
> J.K. Rowling: “Find the time in your day to practice transphobia every day, even if it’s for only 15 minutes.”
lmfao
@jec best thing I’ve read all day
kt@BethanyBlack i dare her…..
ZZ Bottom
Cian Verati 
@BethanyBlack Bless the Onion. It's the only links I'll click with Rowling's name on it bc mainstream is just so hurtful to read on trans issues.
Scott@BethanyBlack The Onion have been on fire lately
Kevin Clark@BethanyBlack The Onion never misses
Tinker Worm@BethanyBlack @donmelton the onion always deliver .
I do have a sense of ChatGPT writing it tho.
“Write a mock interview with JK Rowling in style of the onion”
I fired it up, and why do I have a feeling it’s a prepared by lawyer response on ChatGPT side .
The onion is way funnier …
Tim Erickson, @stpaultimAnd the page seems to be broken. At least for me.
Rupert Reynolds