Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 24d Last week I wrote a blog post calling out JK Rowling's bullshit for threatening to sue Amnesty International for expressing an opinion that Rowling doesn't like. Now I have someone in my comments "threatening" to send the post to her. And my response is: go for it. www.techdirt.com/2026/07/17/j...
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As we say in German - Wayne interessiert's?
fucking Wayne
i love american literature
I don’t think I agree with everything in your blog but I won’t be taking legal action against you or getting JKR involved…
One of the best things about not using Twitter is I forgot J KKK Rowling exists because I don't see her dumbass tweets
And like... being a transphobe is her entire thing now! I don't think she'd disagree! Wayne is not the sharpest crayon in the box
JK...I mean Wayne, sounds like a treat
I wish I understood why people are so fucking nuts.
Today I learned of the "Hubris Effect". Also allied with similar effects like "Nobelitis", the Halo Effect (reversed) and just plain grandiose delusions. People who acquire fame and power develop an altered sense of reality and conflate their opinions with strongly held objective truth.
Don’t threaten me with a good time.
Doesn't the US specifically have an anti-UK defamation law? 😂
JK is seriously one fucked up person
Also, "wayne" is an idiot. We didn't "delete" his comments as is obvious from the fact that his comments (multiple copies of them) are and remain on the site. But I'm having trouble understanding why he seems to think that we should be punished for expressing an opinion about Rowling's hatefulness
Really funny that he’s criticizing you for not knowing UK law when he clearly doesn’t know California Anti-SLAPP law.
I’m unclear why he thinks Rowling expressing her “legally protected beliefs” somehow means she’s not a transphobe if those beliefs are transphobic.
has the desire to send it to jkr just to say “she has it now.” however, i have no motivation to look for her contact info
Her beliefs can be legally protected. And she can still be a transphobe, Wayne.