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This is insane, there should be fines for frivolous lawsuits like this.
This is why he moved to Texas
And changed the twitter ToS to require suits in a specific part of texas.
Amazing how terms of service apparently carry the same weight as laws, yet can be changed arbitrarily by businesses on a whim.
It also wouldn't fly in the EU anyway.
Any lawsuits have to be brought in the country in which the citizen bringing the suit lives. So if I wanted to sue Twitter I literally would have to do them where I live. There is no way for me to sue them in Texas since I'm not a citizen of Texas or the US.
How likely is that chunk to be thrown out for being obviously ridiculous?
In a past life, pretty plausible.
Now that Elmo is the First Lady, this is the best TOS that's ever been written by anyone ever. It's perfect. It probably trumps the constitution because of how perfect it is.
According to the article, not that likely:
It seems insane to me that the US system lets you literally specify the exact judge (that you've already bought and paid for) as the only judge that can hear cases against you. And that the system is basically OK with this.
It's also insane that a judge with a vested interest in one of the claimants, doesn't have to automatically recuse themselves.
They do... It's just not expected that they won't
Pains of being a prototype democracy and all... If only the founding fathers had explicitly told us our system would need reform as issues came up
So we're just going past the line of obviously corrupt without batting an eye? They even tell us now. Written. Legally binding.
There are. In most states.
He's having the suits filed specifically in one of the few states that don't.