“The only thing I don’t really get about this new platform is the name: Tucker Carlson Network. It kind of feels incomplete like, doesn’t it feel like he should have called it the Tucker Carlson network. And he really should have gotten the website ‘theTuckerCarlsonnetwork.com.’ And he didn’t. But I did,” He concluded, urging his audience to check it out.
My bad. Was trying to express “this must be illegal ∴ I’m surprised CBS would go for this”, not “this must be illegal ∴ Colbert shouldn’t have done it and Tucker’s in the right.”
And meanwhile, the earliest responses I got to my comment seemed to indicate that folks were downvoting me because they thought I was wrong about it being illegal.
At this point, I suspect the purportion of folks who downvoted me because they think I’m wrong about it being illegal versus those who downvoted me because my post did kinda sound like I was condemning Colbert for breaking “The Rules™” might be around 50/50.
(While I’m at it, I’m under no illusion that the law is magic and there’s an objective answer that isn’t influenced by a complex intermix of corporate interests, politics, and the judge’s own predilections to the question of whether it’s “illegal”. What I mean by “illegal” in this case is just that if a lawsuit was brought and it wasn’t settled out of court, it’s (IMO) pretty certain the courts would find in favor of Tucker.)