JK Rowling falls silent as she could be prosecuted in Imane Khelif lawsuit - eviltoast

Author J.K. Rowling has fallen silent on her usually busy X (formerly Twitter) feed, after Olympic gold medalist boxer Imane Khelif filed a legal complaint in France for alleged cyber harassment over statements regarding her gender.

On August 9, lawyers for Khelif filed a lawsuit with a special unit of the public prosecutor’s office in Paris, stemming from false statements that spread online about her gender after the Algerian boxer defeated Italy’s Angela Carini in her first fight of the 2024 Olympic Games. Carini pulled out 46 seconds into the bout and told reporters afterwards that she had “never felt a punch like this.”

  • DJDarren@thelemmy.club
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    3 months ago

    Ok, sorry. I’m British, I couldn’t really give a fuck about the first amendment.

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        3 months ago

        This is the internet, where we’re all an authority on all things American because Americans won’t shut the fuck up talking about themselves.