Today’s news is from Sunday afternoon, when one is tired of the whole weekend and thinks that nothing can surprise them. Hold on to your seat, there are some twists coming.
Elon Musk has a lot of money and likes to be the protagonist of all scandals. 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 finance another lawsuit and, in this case, the defendant is the creator and genius Jack Dorsey.
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 when it was Twitter). As you will see now, the lawsuit is quite something, as it seems to be about freedom of speech but it’s actually an excuse for hate speech.
An absurd lawsuit and a lost fight
In the lawsuit, Happe accused Block of firing her for making two posts on X in her personal time: one in which she pretended to be a citizen of Kurdistan and referred to the refugees fleeing Gaza after the October 7 Hamas attacks, and another in which she used disabling language and insults against transgender people in reference to gender-neutral bathrooms. Both were made from pseudonymous accounts.
The lawsuit alleges that she was unlawfully terminated in violation of Block’s own employee expression policy and “several constitutionally protected freedoms, including freedom of thought, freedom of belief, freedom of expression, and freedom of expressive association” because neither of the two messages mentioned Block, she posted them during her personal time, and “voluntarily deleted” both messages a few days after posting them.
According to the complaint, Block’s human resources department said they received reports about Happe’s messages. When Block obtained the deleted posts and showed them to Happe, she denied making them and “claimed that an abusive ex-boyfriend must have impersonated her online”.
A few days later, Block fired Happe. Happe claims that Block fired her without compensation solely because she “expressed her political views, opinions, or beliefs in the form of satire,” which 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 for the political opinions she expressed on X. Chloe had two pseudonymous accounts on X, @bronzeageshawty and the now obsolete @samsarashawty. Neither of them made any reference to Block or her own identity before Block fired her. But because some of the opinions she expressed on her X accounts did not conform to the prevailing political orthodoxy, Block fired her, violating the law. X supports her lawsuit to vindicate her rights.”
Happe wants to get her job back and be compensated for the loss of salary. Block has not made any public statement about the lawsuit and did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Mashable.
If you have come this far, you may be wondering what Elon Musk and X have to do with this lawsuit, the answer is nothing. They have nothing to do with it, so financing something like this is just another measure to get attention and be, once again, on the wrong side of history.
