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Author J.K. Rowling has fallen silent on her usually busy X (formerly Twitter) feed, after Olympic gold medalist boxer Imane Khelif filed a legal complaint in France for alleged cyber harassment over statements regarding her gender.

On August 9, lawyers for Khelif filed a lawsuit with a special unit of the public prosecutor's office in Paris, stemming from false statements that spread online about her gender after the Algerian boxer defeated Italy's Angela Carini in her first fight of the 2024 Olympic Games. Carini pulled out 46 seconds into the bout and told reporters afterwards that she had "never felt a punch like this."

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[-] LadyAutumn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 113 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Heaven forbid she lose money. Literally the only thing that could make her ~~stop~~ briefly pause harassing people on the internet.

[-] floofloof@lemmy.ca 51 points 3 months ago

She has billions. No matter how much she loses she'll still be obscenely rich.

[-] Blade9732@lemmy.world 28 points 3 months ago

Maybe they can sue for billions. Gawker got sued out of existence, I hope she gets some good US attorneys and files in a jurisdiction that has unlimited damages. Maybe we can all use the new "K" platform after she owns "X".

[-] aStonedSanta@lemm.ee 26 points 3 months ago

Peter Thiel is the reason they were sued out of existence.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 17 points 3 months ago

Yep. Because they outed him. And he couldn't sue them for that, so he waited around until he found something he could use to sink his teeth into them.

People were cheering when Gawker lost and got shut down because Gawker sucked. Not me. I saw a billionaire using the justice system successfully for a personal vendetta and was horrified.

[-] Samvega@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 3 months ago

Is anyone suing Peter Thiel out of existence?

[-] VeganCheesecake@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 3 months ago

Don't think the UK has the potential for redicolously high damages that exists in some US states.

[-] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago

the only thing

I mean, there are other ways, but...

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