Republican Representative Lauren Boebert is furious about a parody website that is using her Congressional photo, while also calling her out on some of the craziest things that she has said. Recently, a member of her staff reached out to the owner of the website and threatened them with "action" if the website was not immediately removed from the internet. Farron Cousins explains why this is not only a ridiculous overreaction, but also why Boebert can't do anything about it.
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Republican representative Lauren Boebert is furious right now at a parody website. So furious that she had one of her staffers reach out and threaten action against the guy running the parody site saying, if you do not take this down, we're taking action against you because, uh, you're using copyrighted photos and oh no. Now we got you. We get to that in a minute. Here's the thing. The website is the Lauren Boebert.com. It is run by a comedy writer by the name of Toby Morton and Toby Morton revealed yesterday on Twitter that he had been contacted.
But bye Jake. Uh, see if I can find his last name here. Uh, okay. Wow. It doesn't say it. But anyway, um, who is Lauren Boeberts press secretary. This is what a Morton tweeted out. Jake is the press secretary for at Lauren Boebert. Lauren told Jake to use his government email to send me a cease and desist order to take down my website. The Lauren bover.com. Jake is not a lawyer. Jake is an idiot, and this is what that letter said, because again, Morton tweets it out and here's what it says about the photos. You know, they need to be taken down since the photos on here are copyrighted property of the U S federal government. They are property of the office of Congressman, Congressman Lauren Bovert okay. And use of them as unauthorized and illegal. The email says, additionally, the entire website is a defamatory impersonation, and it goes against relevant terms of service and us law.
Please remove it immediately or face further action. Now, Jake, the press secretary was not able to say what us law violated or what further action they were going to take against them. Uh, and that's probably because there's literally nothing. They can do parody in person nations, things like that are essentially protected speech. And it is a far more protected class than regular speech. For example, a parody website, a parody publication, like the onion, uh, even the Babylon bee. They can get away with saying these crazy and outrageous things because it is satire, right? If I were to say the same things in my videos, hell yeah, they could take action against me, but parody, satire, comedy, all of that is a separate class and it is near impossible to Sue individuals like this for defamation. So what is so bad about the LaurenBoebert.com? Well, for the most part, all Morton is doing, he does call her a racist and he calls her a couple of other names in there and sure. That's actually opinion. So you can't claim that that's the famine story either
Because it's his opinion and we're entitled to it.
But he also just shows tweets who shows tweets and other comments that Lauren Boebert has made over the years. Like that's, what's driving her crazy. Is that the stupid thing she says live forever on the Lauren bover.com also, by the way, for what it's worth, those photos that he's using there that they're like, these are property of the U S it's actually public domain.
Um, yeah, so you don't have a case there either. See, I think
What's really Lauren Boebert off aside from this website, showing people who she really is, is that she knows there's nothing she can do about it. She is in effect powerless to stop the satire, to stop the jokes and to stop the commentary. And that drives people like this crazy as much as they want to rail against things like cancel culture, they would love nothing more than to be able to cancel every single individual that has ever leveled. Even the most mild of criticism against them, the website isn't going anywhere and they can and moan and send angry letters. All they want,
But deep down they know they can't do anything.
They're just banking on the other party. Morton
In this case, not knowing his legal rights
Turns out Morton does and there's nothing they can do about it.
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