Taylor Swift Slammed by ACLU for Threatening to Sue a Blogger for White Supremacist Claims and ACLU Is Not Happy
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is calling out Taylor Swift for threatening a blogger with a lawsuit after contending that her music is connected to the alt-right movement.
For the uninitiated, PopFront executive editor Meghan Herning published a piece online titled "Swiftly to the alt-right: Taylor subtly gets the lower case kkk in formation."
In the article, the blogger, after analysis of Swift's song "Look What You Made Me Do," came to the conclusion that she is secretly having "dog whistles" to white supremacy.
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The post also claims that the Charlottesville white supremacist rally chant of "you will not replace us" is much like Swift's "I don't like your kingdom keys, they once belonged to me" line from hew new song.
Herning received a cease-and-desist letter from the "Bad Blood" singer, which discounted the story as a "baseless fiction" and a "malicious attack" against the singer and was described as "replete with demonstrable and offensive falsehoods which bear no relation to reality or the truth" about Swift.
Herning responded with backup from ACLU, who came out with a press release as a response, even using lyrics from her songs in their crackdown. ACLU attorney Matt Cagle wrote, per Elite Daily:
Intimidation tactics like these are unacceptable. Not in her wildest dreams can Ms. Swift use copyright law to suppress this exposure of a threat to constitutionally protected speech.
The Grammy winner's camp ultimately demanded Herning to take down the post. Entertainment Weekly believes that it is best for Swift to just shake it off since the blog is only followed by a little over a hundred people.
The publication says that the question now is whether or not the claims made by the blogger can be proven defamatory on a legal sense enough for her Swift to make a legal move. The singer's team is yet to respond in ACLU's statement.
