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Video: John Oliver on the Fraught Subject of Corn

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Charles Johnson5/23/2024 1:51:38 pm PDT

Anti-SLAPP laws sound good in theory, but in practice if billionaires decide they’re going to legally harass an organization like Media Matters, they can kill it. Anti-SLAPP only helps if there’s a judgment in your favor; up to that point you have to come up with lots of dollars just to start defending yourself. Organizations that don’t have deep pockets or billionaire funders are not able to fight this to the point of winning.