Ep 55 — Elon Musk Sues Advertisers For GIVE ME MONEY

Law and Chaos

Twitter filed an antitrust suit against a tiny non-profit trade group and a bunch of big companies for “illegally” boycotting his Nazi bar. To protect free speech! And for subscribers: Did Kamala copy Trump’s plan to cut taxes on tipped compensation? 

Links:

RELEASE: Sen. Ted Cruz’s No Tax on Tips Act Does Little for Low- and Moderate-Wage Workers But Opens Door to Tax Abuse by Wealthy

https://www.americanprogress.org/press/release-sen-ted-cruzs-no-tax-on-tips-act-does-little-for-low-and-moderate-wage-workers-but-opens-door-to-tax-abuse-by-wealthy/ 

It’s Now Impossible to Search Old Trump Tweets on X

https://www.mediaite.com/online/its-now-impossible-to-search-old-trump-tweets-on-x/ 

Duke Really Did Get All The Foul Calls, Washington Post, April 7, 2015

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fancy-stats/wp/2015/04/07/duke-really-did-get-all-the-foul-calls-in-the-2015-ncaa-tournament/

House Judiciary Committee Interim Report on GARM

https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/republicans-judiciary.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/2024-07-10%20GARMs%20Harm%20-%20How%20the%20Worlds%20Biggest%20Brands%20Seek%20to%20Control%20Online%20Speech.pdf

House Judiciary Documents on GARM

https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/republicans-judiciary.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/GARMReportFinalAppendix.pdf

GARM Brand Safety Floor

https://wfanet.org/l/library/download/urn:uuid:7d484745-41cd-4cce-a1b9-a1b4e30928ea

WFA 2023 Annual Report

https://wfanet.org/l/library/download/urn:uuid:0580b3a0-e365-4d61-b5cd-6d9d2e2557f2/2023+wfa+annual+report.pdf?redirected=1723422670

GDI Disinformation Risk Assessment: The Online News Market in the United States

https://www.disinformationindex.org/country-studies/2022-12-16-disinformation-risk-assessment-the-online-news-market-in-the-united-states/

X v. WFA complaint

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.txnd.393003/gov.uscourts.txnd.393003.1.0_2.pdf

FTC on Group Boycotts

https://www.ftc.gov/advice-guidance/competition-guidance/guide-antitrust-laws/dealings-competitors/group-boycotts

15 U.S.C. § 1

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/15/1

FTC v. Superior Ct. Trial Lawyers Ass’n, 493 U.S. 411 (1990)

https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=7145214033986459725

NAACP v. Claiborne Hardware Co., 458 U.S. 886

https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=7271075303659098319

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