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Silly Celebrity Lawsuits

Posted by M. C. on March 13, 2023

Pretty much anyone selling anything at all can be reached by this not unreasonable interpretation.

https://open.substack.com/pub/walterblock/p/silly-celebrity-lawsuits?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android

Luis Rivera

By Walter E. Block

What do Madonna, Tom Brady, David Ortiz, Jimmy Fallon, Gwyneth Paltrow and Kim Kardashian have in common? Yes, they are all famous, but that’s not it. Rather, it is the fact that they have all been the subject of lawsuits against them for their endorsement of crypto currency.

It would appear that the plaintiffs lost money in their investments, and they blame these celebrities for misinforming them. If justice were to prevail, those wasting the courts’ time in this manner should be severely penalized for bringing frivolous lawsuits; at the very least, they ought to be compelled to pay the legal costs of these high profile defendants.

Endorsing something is merely giving an opinion, and doing so is part and parcel of free speech. Now that this right is under attack by wokist cancellers, it is more important than ever that we defend, to the utmost, what few free speech rights are left to us.

Penalizing endorsers is open to all sorts of reductios ad absurdum. Who else gives of their opinions, for a fee, and whose implicit advice might upon occasion, backfire.

Perhaps the most mistaken endorsers are the meteorologists. 

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