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I asked for a cite, you're giving me handwaves. It is not harassment to say "I will not engage in business with you if you employ that person." Libel is something you gotta prove , has many facets to its proof (fair-comment-and-criticism exists regardless of whether they're a public figure or not, actual malice tests exist for public figures), and has no bearing anyway on the base claim of "I will not engage in busin…

"Proof" is a question for the legal system it has zero barring on if something is actually illegal. Otherwise the perfect crime would be legal. "I will not engage in business with you if you employ that person." is a very vague statement that covers a huge range of situations. One specific case relates to the California’s Fair Housing and Employment Act (FEHA) and that really may legally require someone to ignore pas…

This post is close to getting me to throw my hands up in the air and give up. But it's not for the reason you'd hope, it's not because of some chin-stroking wisdom or feat of evidence. It's because I can't argue with not-even-wrong claims. Literally nothing in your post is both accurate and relevant. Tortious interference has nothing to do with anything we're talking about. FEHA has nothing to do with anything we're talking about. The fallacy of composition has never been so unfurled and I am left almost wordless by it.

I asked for examples. To your credit, you did provide examples of something. I am unsure what, but it is something. But if you are interested in relevant content, I would suggest instead beginning with SCOTUS First Amendment rulings around association and speech, an accessible entry point into which would be NAACP v. Alabama, and follow into cases that cite it.

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