Chevron Sues Cartoonist for Satirical Video: CEO Claims Emotional Distress. Feelings Were Hurt.

[evildevil]

Chevron’s now going after political cartoonists
The oil conglomerate is claiming injuries from a satirical video

How desperate is Chevron to get out of paying billions in damages for oil contamination in Ecuador’s rain forest? Very, according to Mark Fiore. The Pulitzer Prize-winning political cartoonist claims the company has filed court

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[nesmith]

Awwwww, poor baby.

They're going to get schooled real quick about the First Amendment and protected speech. REAL quick.

[thelilyqueen]

You have more faith than I do in the gov's willingness to go against the corporations...

[horatios]

+1

[nesmith]

I think if it were Congress there'd be no way, but Chevron's going to court, and the burden's on them to prove their case, and protected speech is protected pretty well.

And even cases where the courts have ruled against free speech it can be appealed and overturned.

[tsu_]

this is such asshole behaviour... if they win, it sets a really bad precedent since RICO was enacted to *prevent* this kind of bullying.

[hey_spectrum]

Chevron is just doing what corporations do I guess but what really scares me is the misuse of RICO. That's a scary place to be man

[zinnia_rose]

Go cry into your enormous piles of money, Chevron.