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They may intend to take this all the way to the Supreme Court, and with the court's current composition, there's an excellent chance they win and even get the u

They may intend to take this all the way to the Supreme Court, and with the court's current composition, there's an excellent chance they win and even get the underlying statute neutered or struck down.

pcwalton 5y ago
If the executives think it's anything remotely resembling a reasonable use of company assets to fight workplace discrimination laws on constitutional grounds, the board should fire them, and if they don't, the shareholders should fire the board. ATVI is a large publicly traded corporation. It's not Hobby Lobby.
an_opabinia 5y ago
??? That’s not how this stuff works at all. This is a dispute over the facts, and how much money the facts are worth, and to whom. Someone in California DOJ had a 15 minute meeting with their people and ATVI people and already decided that ATVI is going to face a fine to be paid to its female complainant former employees, the next three years of lawsuit is a ceremony enacting that.
- p1necone 5y ago
  If you think the Republicans care about facts I've got a bridge to sell you... Even on HN every time the concept of misinformation online comes up the hordes of "free speech" absolutists favorite argument is some variation of "but you can't actually know what the truth is" or "how could we trust someone else to decide what the truth is". (I'm putting free speech in scare quotes because I think this behavior is actively harmful to the actual existence of free speech and freedom in general, and at this point has just turned into a right wing dogwhistle, at least in anonymous internet discussions)
  - the_optimist 5y ago
    You can keep this very poorly constructed bridge. Please do better providing an actual argument rather than careening around slandering people.
    - p1necone 5y ago
      I'm not trying to slander people, I'm just trying to point out to a person implying that a supreme court stacked with Republicans will care about facts that Republicans have a long history of not being particularly tethered to reality.
hdhjebebeb 5y ago
I would love to hear a theory for how the supreme court could take this case. Free exercise?
Eric_WVGG 5y ago
can you even imagine that being worth all the bad press and ill will this’ll cost them
- HelloNurse 5y ago
  Unless they are picked on for a very successful boycott, it's going to be mostly aversion from current and potential employees, with Google-like staff evaporation but with much lower attractiveness. Does Activision have backup studios in "developing countries" or other clever plans?
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pcwalton 5y ago

If the executives think it's anything remotely resembling a reasonable use of company assets to fight workplace discrimination laws on constitutional grounds, the board should fire them, and if they don't, the shareholders should fire the board. ATVI is a large publicly traded corporation. It's not Hobby Lobby.

an_opabinia 5y ago

??? That’s not how this stuff works at all. This is a dispute over the facts, and how much money the facts are worth, and to whom. Someone in California DOJ had a 15 minute meeting with their people and ATVI people and already decided that ATVI is going to face a fine to be paid to its female complainant former employees, the next three years of lawsuit is a ceremony enacting that.

p1necone 5y ago
If you think the Republicans care about facts I've got a bridge to sell you... Even on HN every time the concept of misinformation online comes up the hordes of "free speech" absolutists favorite argument is some variation of "but you can't actually know what the truth is" or "how could we trust someone else to decide what the truth is". (I'm putting free speech in scare quotes because I think this behavior is actively harmful to the actual existence of free speech and freedom in general, and at this point has just turned into a right wing dogwhistle, at least in anonymous internet discussions)
- the_optimist 5y ago
  You can keep this very poorly constructed bridge. Please do better providing an actual argument rather than careening around slandering people.
  - p1necone 5y ago
    I'm not trying to slander people, I'm just trying to point out to a person implying that a supreme court stacked with Republicans will care about facts that Republicans have a long history of not being particularly tethered to reality.

hdhjebebeb 5y ago

I would love to hear a theory for how the supreme court could take this case. Free exercise?

Eric_WVGG 5y ago

can you even imagine that being worth all the bad press and ill will this’ll cost them

HelloNurse 5y ago
Unless they are picked on for a very successful boycott, it's going to be mostly aversion from current and potential employees, with Google-like staff evaporation but with much lower attractiveness. Does Activision have backup studios in "developing countries" or other clever plans?

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