I can’t wait to get my permanent fake tooth. Im so tired of this easy to lose fake tooth shit.

I’m admittedly someone who likes conspiracies, but this is also my area of expertise—high stakes litigation. With all the rabble out there and the podcast circuit that guy just went on which he seemed to effortlessly secure but only after he failed to secure funding for his defense, just doesn’t smell right to me. I have seen small businesses spend millions of dollars on litigation just to demonstrate to the public that they will enforce their contracts if they are challenged, regardless of whether they can collect on those It just doesn’t pass that smell test that the world seems uniformly in agreement that the Samurai case is a serious danger to speech, coding, etc.etc., but these guys couldn’t sure defense funding, or just pro bono lawyers, to help. If you have practiced federal litigation you know that when an industry sees a threat in a given lawsuit, lawyers come from all over out of the woodwork to help and make sure the precedent set is good for the industry, yet here there was a mediocre campaign for funds and then a plea deal ostensibly due to lack of funding. There is definitely more to this story. View quoted note →

I’m not going to try to weed through the semantic and rhetorical positions a lot of you want to take on that other thread but I am very curious what you all have to think about the following: It seems like a lot of you believe (and I agree) that the samurai prosecution is a serious threat to speech and privacy and the space generally. Yet no one seemed to give a shit enough to fund a single lawsuit. There are actual bitcoin billionaires and millionaire who we actually know without having to say names. They didn’t give a shit. There are serious public figure venture capitalists in this space. I’m sure they gave money they certainly asked us to on their various pod casts. And had Keonne on all the podcasts after the plea. Where was all the money? I watch what people do not what people say. You all rightly point out they could not afford their defense, and I believe they. So where was the money and why couldn’t they get it if this was all so important? I don’t know the answers to any of this but I think we should all think about it a little. This isn’t me trying to imply anything at all. I genuinely wonder if this was such an important case where was all the fucking money when they needed it. Rando victims of police violence have no problem generating millions of dollars from random idiots so what really happened here? A real investigator should ask that question but there might be something important that we aren’t talking about.

FWIW if I’m misunderstood that’s on me but I’m also not trying to have the conversation that’s trying to happen here. I was trying to have a different one. But that’s ok next time. View quoted note →