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... in the latest chapter of scapegoating internet firms for Trump's election.
by sqdbps 8y ago
... in the latest chapter of scapegoating internet firms for Trump's election.
- lewisinc 8y agoMmm, this is Washington State, not DC
- sqdbps 8y agoThe scapegoating is being done by the left.
- abugheratwork 8y ago"The left" is a hand.
- sqdbps 8y agoNot exclusively.
- stochastic_monk 8y agoThese companies were in obvious violation of the law. These proceedings do not require responsibility for the election to be valid.
- ctrl-j 8y agoPolitical sports-teaming doesn't belong on hacker news.
- philwelch 8y agoWashington AG Bob Ferguson has a history of filing activist lawsuits.
- kolpa 8y agoIs an Attorney General enforcing the laws of the state "activist"?
- TomMckenny 8y agoDepends on whether your party leader is declared above the law.
- TomMckenny 8y agoI can't fathom why the mere mentioning the new doctrine of self-pardon makes people mad. It was announced was it not? I assume all readers are either happy and proud of it or not in which case why shoot the messenger?
- bilbo0s 8y agoNowadays the answer to that question seems to be different for any person you ask, and dependent on whether or not the law being enforced aligns with said individual's ideological beliefs. That's part of the problem not only in the US, but in the West in general at the moment. That said, when you read the law, it's clear that Google and Facebook are in violation of it. They aren't providing requested political ad spend information to residents of Washington state on the spot. That Google and Facebook don't like a law does not confer to them the right to violate it.
- ocdtrekkie 8y agoI think the "activist" angle comes from being a state AG who regularly and publicly gets involved in the national discussion from the state-level chair they have. I wouldn't say it's a bad characteristic in an AG, but it's perhaps a bit unusual? Another example would be New York's (former) AG, Eric Schneiderman, who has filed "over 50 lawsuits opposing Trump's environmental revisions", and of course, actively pursued Harvey Weinstein before resigning due to his own sexual harassment allegations. I would guess that AG's regularly inserting themselves into the national conversation while being very public about it on Twitter and the like, especially, are prepping for a run at a more national political campaign in the future.