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from the should-have-objected-by-writing-in-runes dept.
Rock Paper Shotgun reports:
As reported by PennLive, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit has affirmed the district court's decision that a Pennsylvania man was not discriminated against by being "muted" in an online game.
Amro Elansari filed his original complaint against developer Jagex in July 2019, claiming they "violated his rights to free speech and due process of law." The suit was dismissed by the district court, a decision that has now been upheld by the appeals court for the 3rd Circuit.
Elansari was "muted" in an unnamed online game in March of 2019, according to his "largely handwritten" complaint, says PennLive. Given his suit names Jagex and that Elansari "claimed he had 2,000 hours invested in the game when he was booted out," it seems to follow that he had his account muted in some version of RuneScape.
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The appeals court says that Elansari has not named a "state actor" for his Fourteenth Amendment claim. His complaint under Title II of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was also dismissed with no evidence of a "public accommodations discrimination."
(Score: 3, Informative) by Grishnakh on Sunday January 26 2020, @02:27AM (1 child)
Trump isn't going to allow any sort of outrage from the poor and middle class halt his giveaways to the wealthy.
Why would there be any outrage (from GOP voters)? Trump's poor and middle class supporters love everything he does, including his giveaways to the wealthy. There's no outrage there at all. There's outrage from the Dem voters, but he doesn't care about them. Trump could declare himself dictator and his voters will back him.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by PartTimeZombie on Sunday January 26 2020, @03:22AM
At this point Trump nearly is a dictator. Certainly he is above the law.