This hit way too close to home for me
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Many media juggernauts are in expensive drawn out legal cases against Nick Sandmann, have they stopped losing their absolute shit at everyone they think is slightly on the Right? This isn't "just business" like everyone thinks, its weaponized morality. Ask the Church how well that worked for them for centuries of the Middle Ages (hint: pretty fucking well).
Ah, so the legality doesn't matter in the slightest if you can introduce something to twist it in your favor. Now you are getting it.
A crying girl always won in elementary school, and that hasn't changed since. Again, you are asking all men to collectively cease to give a shit about women instantly for this to work. I'm willing to listen to the argument for going Full Monke anarchy and deleting all civilization to reduce them to chattel like we are fucking Muslims, but I feel like you aren't.
And these companies are following society. No amount of money changes hands when Generic Basic Bitch MeToos someone on Facebook. Yet they did it all the same, just for clout and a little bit of attention (maybe even some petty revenge). Unless your proposition massively expands slander laws to include rumor spreading and other low end gossip, this will continue all the same as well. And this is full of extra consequences.
This is beyond corporations and laws, its a manifestation of a rot within society itself. Its pure hedonism mixed with impotent rage manifesting as misandry/misanthropy, and that won't be taken away with any law any better than the 19th Amendment made people stop drinking "for their own good."