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The porn saga of North Carolina’s lieutenant governor is modern lawfare in a nutshell
He can excuse racism, but he draws the line at bootleg porn.
The suit targets the network for publishing meticulously documented allegations that Robinson made a series of bizarre and frequently bigoted comments on a porn forum called Nude Africa between 2008 and 2012, including referring to himself as “a black NAZI” (capitalization in original). Robinson’s lawsuit claims someone likely impersonated him using information from data breaches, which is certainly possible — but based on the evidence would require a remarkably complex level of deception targeting a man who wouldn’t enter politics until many years later in 2018. Despite the fact that the most successful recent defamation claims have been against conservative media juggernauts like Alex Jones and Fox News, there’s an ongoing Republican attempt to dismantle the speech protections that have long let journalists (and average citizens) freely criticize public figures.
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