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Except what it's saying is true, which makes it kind of hard to constitute libel, and as you note it's "obviously not run by them" and "clearly" satire.
by abalone 8y ago
Except what it's saying is true, which makes it kind of hard to constitute libel, and as you note it's "obviously not run by them" and "clearly" satire.
- eridius 8y agoWhat's true? The website is written to make it look like it's run by the SF Chamber of Commerce, except it's not. The fact that it's pretending to be run by the SF Chamber of Commerce then means stuff like > Everyone agrees that homelessness in SF is a crisis, but we care more about our Trump corporate tax breaks. is intended to appear as though this is speech made by the SF Chamber of Commerce, it's except it's not. What's more, it has 3 quotations attributed to real people (such as Jim Lazarus, on the SF Chamber of Commerce) that aren't real. Even the footer text doesn't disclose that it's run by Our City Our Home. It instead claims to be run by "No Plan SF". I can tell it's "obviously not run by them" because the SF Chamber of Commerce would have to be fundamentally lacking in self-awareness to write the things on that site. But I can't find anywhere on the site that it actually admits to being satire.
- abalone 8y agoIt’s obviously satire. Opens with “It took a little while, but we're glad to see corporations brave enough to prioritize protecting their Trump tax cuts over solutions to homelessness. Whew!” Looking forward to your legal analysis of SNL.