X is funding a lawsuit filed by Chloe Happe against her former employer, Block | Mashable.
X is funding a lawsuit filed by Chloe Happe against her former employer, Block.
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| Elon Musk's X funds lawsuit against Jack Dorsey's Block Credit: Photo by KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV/AFP via Getty Images) |
Elon Musk has a lot of money. He also owns a couple of companies that have a lot of money. One of those companies, X, is using some of its money to fund yet another lawsuit.
The lawsuit was filed by Chloe Happe against her former employer Block — yes, the Block that was founded by Jack Dorsey, the person who founded X back when it was Twitter. The tech world is just one interconnected web not unlike The Chart in The L Word.
In the complaint, Happe accused Block of firing her for making two posts on X in her personal time: One in which she purported to be a citizen of Kurdistan and referenced refugees fleeing Gaza in the aftermath of the October 7 Hamas attacks, and another in which she used ableist language and slurs against trans people in reference to gender neutral restrooms. Both were made from pseudonymous accounts.
The lawsuit alleges that she was unlawfully terminated in violation of Block's own employee speech policy and "several constitutionally protected freedoms, including the freedom of thought, the freedom of belief, the freedom of speech, and the freedom of expressive association" because neither post mentioned Block, she posted both of them during her personal time, and she "voluntarily deleted" both posts within days of posting them.
According to the lawsuit, human resources at Block said it received reports about Happe's posts. When Block obtained the deleted posts and showed them to Happe, she denied making them and "claimed an abusive ex-boyfriend must have impersonated her online." A few days later, Block fired Happe. She is claiming that Block terminated her without severance solely because she "expressed her political views, opinions, or beliefs in the form of satire" that Block disagreed with.
"X is funding a lawsuit filed today by Chloe Happe against her former employer, Block," X's account posted on X. "Block fired Chloe because of the political opinions she expressed on X. Chloe had two pseudonymous accounts on X, @bronzeageshawty and the now-deprecated @samsarashawty. She did not reference Block or her own identity on either account before Block fired her. But because some of the opinions she expressed in her X accounts did not conform to the prevailing political orthodoxy, Block fired her, in violation of the law. X is supporting her suit to vindicate her rights."
Happe wants her job back and to be compensated for loss of pay. Block has not released a public statement about the lawsuit and did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Mashable.
Since most companies can fire you for no reason, not sure she's going to have much of an argument.
ReplyDeleteshe's from Missouri which is an at will state. She will lose on that alone. She also clearly says ADA in her posts which is clearly hate speech. He's only doing this because it's Jack's company and he's got fu money. It's also not covered by 1st ammendment due to both x and block being private companies.
DeleteWhen social media is the new government? Interesting takes on "free speech".
ReplyDeleteHer hate speech on a public platform shinned a spotlight on how horrible of a person they had on their payroll. Her company exercised their free speech to say "you're fired".
DeleteI dont know what I just read. X Block Twitter ...
ReplyDeleteIt seems it could be argued that she was fired for lying after denying she posted the tweets in question and made up a story about her ex hijacking her accounts and posting them I her name 🤔🤷🏼♂️
ReplyDeletefired for pollitical views?
ReplyDeleteshe said nothing political. It was pure hate speech.
Deletehate speech is quite arbitrary category.
Deleteno, there's pretty defined laws in the US as to what qualifies. Calling out the ADA specifically definitely qualifies.
Deleteso calling someone retarded is now punishable by law? I heard you can serve lifetime in prison in canada soon, way to go.
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Deletethat's not how anything works in Canada
Delete#ApartheidClyde doesn’t care.
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Free speech on X
ReplyDelete#technology
Elon Musk has basically turned into a caricature of a comic book villain, like Lex Luthor, or one of those Bond villains
ReplyDeleteI entirely agree, but imagine if Lex Luthor started doing ketamine.
DeleteGood.
ReplyDeleteIf she'd been fired for sharing some progressive nonsense, Mashable would probably be funding her lawsuit, along with the ACLU and other humourless leftist dullards.
Yeah. I feel you, man. Heaven forbid we should ever be progressive.
DeleteWhat do you think that means by the way?
'progressive' implies a belief that a particular set of ideas is 'progress' and anything that isn't deemed "progressive" must be either stagnant or regressive.
DeleteIt's arrogance though to slap a 'superior' label on your ideas that you and your ideas are superior to others.
Because that's essentially the delusions of grandeur that so-called "progressives" believe themselves to be.
Could you give me an example of an idea that you consider valid that progressives would consider stagnant or regressive?
DeleteI'm honestly curious.
anything post WWI is #WOKE
Delete#teslafanboyscertified
WW1 was very woke. Imagine being so progressive you cared about Frans Ferdinand. He was a lesbian communist with no respect for are flag of Saint George of Asda.
Deletein hindsight, the Greeks were bi too. Ergo, #WOKE
DeleteI guess anything post Cro-Magnon is #WOKE
#teslafanboyscertified
Must be another MAGAT that just plain loves and worships egomaniacs.
DeleteFree hate speech that revs up hate actions that divides our country more.
ReplyDeleteRepublicans don’t believe in Freedom of Speech. They want the Freedom to lie with zero consequences. And they believe that exposing their lies goes against Freedom of Speech they are too stupid to realize that exposing the lies is also freedom of speech.
ReplyDeletefreedom implies free of shackles. No restrictions.
DeleteHello, Are you in need of any financial assistance? Message with “support me” I will assist you with 10k.
ReplyDelete🖕🏼musk
ReplyDeleteBlock is jack company, founder of Twitter.
ReplyDeleteThis is juicy.
Interesting
ReplyDeleteGood for her. Hope she wins.
ReplyDeleteBlock (formally known as Square?)
ReplyDeleteCrazy how that’s a Jack Dorsey company
ReplyDeleteThat’s exactly why it’s happening it’s a calculated hilarious chess move lmao
DeleteTwitter throwing his money away on a lawsuit that’s guaranteed to lose is a calculated chess move? Lol ok
Deleteit's not a calculated chess move, Elon is just bitter and spiteful because Dorsey was the one who talked him into the idea of buying twitter. And then he tried to back out once he realized he overbid, and got stuck w what will end up a $30 billion loss because he's a moron lmao
DeleteI think it’s just another move by Elon to oppose the woke agenda
Deletei gotcha, we disagree on this. but thanks for answering
Deleteon the merits of the legal case: it will
Deletenot succeed. elon seems unnecessarily cruel to trans people considering his daughter is
I mean fair enough I am not an Elon fanboy just think he’s objectively interesting and entertaining in regards to how he operates throughout life, this video came to mind in the context of this debacle
Deletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8Nf56srwcA
apologies that is too long for me to watch the full episode right now. all i know is that he overbid and tried to back out and the delaware court of chancery was about to legally compel his purchase so he went though with it
Deletethe market was tanking and he was desperate to get out of the deal but the board of twitter called his bluff and took their lucrative payouts and left him with a revenue negative company
Deletesorry if i'm not addressing your points
DeleteFair enough yeah there’s a lot of ways to look at it, but maybe watch that when you have a bit it’s only 15 mins
Deletecool will give it a go 👍
DeleteFantastic
ReplyDeleteI hope she wins.
ReplyDeleteThis is all too familiar
ReplyDeleteYeah it’s called at will employment.
DeleteLMAO not when it suppresses your 1st amendment rights of free speech. If she has the evidence that company could liable for millions in damages. Hopefully she wins big so companies learn you want to fafo then you will pay for doing so. Its illegal to infringe one 1st amndt rights
Deleteyou really don't understand the first amendment if you think it applies to posts on twitter!
DeleteThis is going to be interesting.
ReplyDeleteI hope she gets PAID !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteWhich "political opinions" exactly?
ReplyDeleteBullish on $EGIRL
ReplyDeletePraying for a blessed day for everyone reading this 🙏 ❤️
ReplyDeleteThat’s great! Btw, so it is officially okay by X to have more than one account?
ReplyDeleteI'd fire her too if she called out a worker like that. Horrible.
ReplyDeleteDoes this company operate in a right to work state? If so, she’s probably out of luck.
ReplyDeletechloeeeee hahhahaha
ReplyDeletelmfao
ReplyDeleteOk ok
ReplyDeleteDo we have any context on what she said I’m curious.
ReplyDelete🙌💫
ReplyDeleteWould
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ReplyDeleteIsnt this free speech against employer? I have the right to fire anyone as an employer? if an employee of mine is seeming to displaying bigoted opinions, my clients could leave me and i dont want to take that risk etc…
ReplyDelete"seeming to displaying bigoted opinions"
DeleteWho cares what you think is, and isn't, a "bigoted opinion"?
Please let everyone know the name of your company.
Just so everyone who loves free speech can make sure never to become one of your employees.
My company my choice ? Why free speech only for employees?
DeleteHow about we pass a new "hate" crime law that takes away your company and all its assets if someone takes offence to any posts you have made on social media?
DeleteIf you want to take away the right of your employees and deprive them of their livelihood that would only be fair.
$31.7 million..
ReplyDeleteX is now replacing the @ACLU as the fighter of free speech.
ReplyDeletefighter OF or FOR free speech?
DeleteFree speech applies to everyone not just the political opinions of people X align themselves with…
ReplyDeleteWhat a strange cause it is not clear to me if it is a cause of work or simply a cause of slander
ReplyDeleteGrateful.
ReplyDelete👏👏
ReplyDeleteWow. A company doing this to its workers, is not a company that deserves to thrive.
ReplyDeleteInteresting.. I was fired at my job because of my opinion of the jab and "peaceful protests" that happened in 2020. By the way so many people have died that got the jab that no one will ever convince me that it is safe. It is effective though in killing people and making them infertile.
ReplyDeleteEventually everyone who got the jab will die, it's wild
Delete🎯
ReplyDeleteStart a GiveSendGo!
ReplyDelete*mute*
ReplyDeleteHow did they find out her actual identity?
ReplyDeleteThere must be freedom of Speech on #X..
ReplyDeleteEye see.
ReplyDeleteApril Fool?
ReplyDeleteFrom her posts, she is blaming X. She is saying X ruined her life and that she will never find a husband. She also said she is moving back to Kazitskan.
ReplyDeleteShe ruined her life. And, Kazakhstan can have her.
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