Carrie Goldberg
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Lawyer for families destroyed by big tech. NYT Editor's Choice: Nobody's Victim: Fighting Psychos Stalkers Pervs and Trolls. she/her 🇺🇦
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My book arrived in the office!!!!!!!!
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Release date Aug 13
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Last Friday, CBS cancelled a segment about our clients suing Amazon for selling suicide kits to their now deceased kids. CBS’ cowardice gave me renewed clarity about how urgent this litigation is. 🧵
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For years, we've represented teens -- of all genders -- who were tortured at school for being victims of revenge porn, video voyeurism, rape; and in several cases all three combined. Our clients were ostracized, publicly shamed, and often forced to transfer.
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Today my client,
@RepKatieHill
, lost against perverted Daily Mail, a website that peddles in humiliation and monetizes sexual privacy invasions of women.
DM said, and the court agreed, that Katie's nudes were their free speech.
We think the appellate court will disagree. 1/
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I'm a victims rights lawyer. For every 1 case involving a rape tape on Pornhub, I have 50 involving rape and CSAM being disseminated on Insta and FB. Pornhub is far from perfect. But mainstream big tech is far worse and have a built-in mechanism for harassing victims directly.
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had so clearly violated the cheer constitution in engaging in conduct unbecoming. Meanwhile the boy faced no punishment and continued playing basketball.
It's a new fucking thing that victims get any compassion or kindness whatsoever.
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In one case, our 8th grade client was raped and the video went viral around her school. Did anybody show a modicum of kindness? Nope. Not a single friend. Nobody would have lunch with her, kids pantomimed how she looked in the video and asked her to do it with them too.
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Yes, in rare occasions at certain schools where students are educated about consent, there is a shame that has shifted from victim to offender. And immediately, the administrations try to create a false equivalency between the conduct of the victim and offender
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The NYM story ends with the offender leaving town to go to college hundreds of miles away. You know what has happened to many of my clients? They don't go to college, they spin out into a cycle of shame and destruction,
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She was threatened by the boy's friends when he was suspended and the school asked her to stay home b/c her presence was keeping the video in circulation. Finally, SHE transferred schools and was harassed b/c of the video for six years.Rumors followed to her new school.
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Anybody with a credible claim against Epstein (or his associates like Dershowitz, DJT), my firm will rep pro bono.
#ChildVictimsAct
is new NY law for victims of child sex abuse. It ignores statute of limitations for a one year window starting Aug 14, 2019 so victims can sue.
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mental health issues and eating disorders. And they don't ever recover from the layers of trauma caused by sexually violence, the ostracizing, and the betrayals by the institutions they sought protection from like cops and school.
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Amazon also routinely removed 1-star reviews from grieving family members trying to warn about the dangers. Amazon’s own search engine helped guide people to the product through autofills. 7/
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We have a couple cases right now where our clients were the victim yet the OFFENDER has filed Title IX disciplinary proceedings against her for the stigma that he's facing from other students. The administration always appears so much more rattled by the social ostracizing of
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the offender than the fact that the underlying sexual violence occurred to the victim. They're used to sexual violence and shaming of the victim but totally disarmed by the offender having social repercussions. In one case, our young client was lured to a park
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and burden and blame the victim for whatever social backlash the offender is receiving. The victim is completely decentered and all attention is on protecting the offender from social stigma from whatever (typically federally felonious) conduct they engaged in.
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We have a male client where two girls impersonated somebody and got him to send them a masturbation video. They then blackmailed him and sent it around. He was shamed and shunned. Several years ago a 15 yo client was videoed without her knowledge while in a sex act.
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create a suicide kit -- Amazon recommends that purchasers also buy Tagamet to avoid vomiting up the poison, a personal use scale to measure the proper quantity, and the Amazon Edition of the Peaceful Pill Handbook, a suicide manual with an entire chapter on how to die by SN. 6/
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demerits and making her do 500 high kicks in front of everybody. She missed all the competitions including the ones where she would have gotten a full scholarship -- she was that talented. Two weeks before graduation, we got the punishment withdrawn. The other cheer
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There was a police investigation which got news coverage. She was so shamed she transferred to a new school. The yearbook published a full page spread about the "sexting scandal." All the kids quoted blamed the girl for bringing this attention to their school.
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I had a 12th grade client who was coerced into sharing nudes. When she went to the vice principal for help with all the boy's friends who were harassing her in the hall, he reported it to her cheerleading coach who suspended her. But not before charging her with
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being told she's dating an abuser.
It really pisses me off that this author was so comfortable with girls being the victim of tribalism and ostracizing behavior -- to the point where we were lectured to withhold judgment
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The day we got the letter from Amazon’s attorney defending their right to continue to sell this product was a turning point in my life. At the same time, my partner in this case and I realized this: Amazon is a serial killer.
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leaders responded by putting cockroaches in her binder and spreading rumors about her in anonymous twitter accounts. At the next school board meeting, there was a line of parents and cheerleaders who berated the administration for commuting punishment of somebody who
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about the offenses that the entire article was about and which she omitted details like how he got the images of the victim. It's retaliation to hold victims responsible for the ostracizing that their abusers get. Rarely do they have anything to do with organizing backlash
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If this thread surprises you, confirms what you already knew or suspected, or makes your heart sick please read more about our firm's work in Nobody's Victim. (But don't order from Amazon. We're suing them for selling and Prime delivering suicide kits)
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for a sexual interaction with a guy who had a friend hiding and recording. The video was shared and the school refuses to punish the boy who lured her there or protect our client from him. Just today they tried to question our client about the boy's new girlfriend
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and are often erased in the momentum of the social response. Yet victims are burdened with the responsibility for protecting their abusers and expected to forgive and smother the backlash.
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selling suicide kits to households. Unlike other products that could be used for suicide (i.e. knives, ropes), there is no other use for Sodium Nitrite at this level of purity outside the laboratory. And Amazon was bundling SN with other products to basically create 5/
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As background, on Feb 3, 2022 we filed a lawsuit in WA State against Amazon on behalf of the Estate of Mikael Scott. In Dec. 2020 Mikael purchased a chemical from Amazon, 98% pure Sodium Nitrite, for $19.99. 2/
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somebody uses one of their products for suicide.
NOTE: it is against the law in our country to aid or assist in another person’s suicide. In 11 states, under exceedingly narrow and legislated circumstances, physicians are allowed to 9/
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At the time, we were also taking action with Congress and DOJ and the press to stop the pro-suicide forum that directs people to buy this product from Amazon.
Amazon’s lawyers from Perkins told us Amazon would continue to sell SN because they can’t be held liable if 8/
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Amazon’s decision to continue selling the suicide product was not out of ignorance or obliviousness. It was an intentional counseled decision.
I’d later find out that two weeks after the Perkins lawyers sent me that letter, Amazon sold and prime delivered 12/
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carefully facilitate the death of a proven terminally ill patient. However, contrary to what Amazon may think, there is no exception in the law that allows for corporate-assisted suicide.
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It was prime delivered two days later. He died three days after that. There is no household use for pure SN, a chemical that when mixed with water and swigged causes a very painful death within 20 min. 3/
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(NOTE: the product we’re suing about should not be mistaken for curing salt which is only 6% pure SN and used to cure meats.). Starting in April 2021, we began urging Amazon to stop 4/
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they didn’t recognize the telltale symptoms, saw no instructions on the bottle, and had to contact poison control as the child died in front of them. There is a very effective antidote for SN: Methylene-blue. 19/
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We made a motion in the WA State Court to add Tyler as a party. Amazon’s lawyers said on the record that it would be “unfair and inhumane” for the two cases to be combined. The judge granted our motion to combine the cases. 15/
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For all these months, we’d deliberately avoided press attention to the case. However, we kept hearing from more and more families whose loved ones purchased SN from Amazon and a couple other small online shops that have popped up. 17/
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17 year old Tyler M from Santa Cruz, California a bottle of SN – the exact same brand as they’d sold to Mikael. His parents went out to dinner for two hours and that was the last time they saw him alive. 13/
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On June 17, 2022 we argued against Amazon’s motion to dismiss the case on account of corporations always being totally immune from any liability for suicide. The judge said she’d have a decision in two weeks. We’re still waiting. 16/
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she didn’t recognize the product and reported it to Amazon. But they sent it anyway after confirming her order was cancelled.
A news piece seemed essential to alert doctors, emergency medical providers and parents. Plus, maybe it would pressure Amazon to stop selling it. 21/
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You can read the legal complaint we filed on Thursday here. 46/
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Tyler was an athlete, a musician, a math whiz, weeks away from graduating from high school and had never given anybody a hint that he was struggling.
When we filed the lawsuit against Amazon on behalf of Mikael, Tyler’s parents saw an article about it and reached out to us.14/
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Even more heartbreaking, we got several cases where the children had consumed the SN, immediately notified their loved ones that they’d ingested it and regretted it, and even though EMS reached them in time, 18/
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But medical providers don’t know in time to give it. (Macabre as it is, Amazon used to sell ad space on the SN page to a company advertising Methylene Blue) We also had a case where a mom saw somebody had ordered SN from her Amazon account, 20/
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We figured it could save thousands of lives.
So a couple weeks ago, I reached out to producers on 60 Minutes with whom I’d collaborated with on their Section 230 segment two years ago. 22/
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One of them said, “Everyone is afraid of Amazon, but it will come out when it's time.” Another said “Maybe the execs at CBS didn't want to be too hard on Amazon since they have a partnership with Amazon Prime.” 41/
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Dismissing Katie Hill’s case on ANTI-SLAPP grounds sets a dangerous precedent for victims of nonconsensual pornography everywhere. Anybody who dares enter the public eye should now have legitimate concern that old nude and sexual images can be shared 3/
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that the network would be willing to talk about suicide – and specifically a method – on the news. We suggested they go talk to suicidologists about how to report it sensitively. 25/
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Then this past Friday, when CBS was in the process of firming up our client’s air travel to NY for filming, the producer called me to tell me he was very sorry. Turns out, he said, that higherups at CBS quashed the story.
CBS SPIKED THE STORY. 39/
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Here's the complaint in the case for Mikael and Tyler filed in WA State.
I'm fucking disgusted by how many more lawsuits we're going to be filing. 47/47
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They told us they didn’t think they could get the 13 minutes they’d need for a 60 Min segment and urged us to work with their news team. They said they could maybe get two five-minute segments on consecutive days. 23/
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They told us that there were these two investigative producers who were aggressively and passionately asking to do the piece. We reluctantly said okay. . From the earliest conversations with 60 Minutes and then CBS News, we asked for absolute confirmation 24/
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And proceeds as if it’s too big to be burdened by morality. If no news organization is willing to shine a light on this mass homicide, I’ll do it here on Twitter and in the courts. 45/
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So, yes, let's pressure Pornhub to clean up. And give victims the right to sue them. But don't blind yourself to the issue that the social media companies you use everyday are FAR worse even though they don't have "porn" in their title.
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We were assured multiple times that the network was approving the segment and was actively being advised about how to handle it carefully. It would not the first time they had covered suicide. 26/
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And Amazon is the number one television advertiser in the country, if not world.
CBS’ failures have been demoralizing and deeply confusing. If it was really about not wanting to report on suicides, why did they assure us so many times they knew how to handle it? 43
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How come they had confidently spotlighted suicide before, but this was different? How could these professionals have treated grieving, devastated families with such callousness? What’s clear to us is that Amazon knowingly profits from suicide. 44/
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It’s true that if you google “Amazon CBS” these two mega companies are seriously interwoven. CBS has a streaming deal with Amazon, ViacomCBS has a big deal for its entire broadcast footprint on AWS. 42/
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The court dismissed Katie's civil case at the earliest stage on anti-SLAPP grounds which is intended for nuisance defamation lawsuits against legit publications.
This is maybe the first time an Anti-SLAPP has been used to throw out a nonconsensual pornography civil suit. 2/
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They said they were doing it during National Bullying month and this would be part of a series where there’d be tons of resources for viewers. I couldn’t believe how 27/
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persistent they were in convincing us to let them do the story. Feeling optimistic that their clear dogged passion for the story, plus repeated affirmations of their ethics and expertise, would create a thorough 28/
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Just last month Daily Mail publicly apologized to Meghan Markle for publishing a private letter to her father. Make no mistake, though, Daily Mail is not sorry. Today it defended its right to have a business model that peddles in women’s humiliations and privacy invasions. 7/
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Please find resources here for help and support
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and who led the way in sending Amazon a letter last January demanding they account for the SN sales (Amazon blew them off). I gave them the contact information for a toxicology expert. 31/
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and professional piece, we agreed to move forward. I told them about Tyler’s case, sent them the complaint, told them about a new filing we were planning for families of a 16 year old and 17 year old 29/
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whose loved ones also died from SN that Amazon sold them. I connected them with staff members at Representative Trahan’s office who we’ve gotten really interested in the SN/Amazon issue 30/
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He said it was because they didn’t want to risk anybody dying from suicide on account of their segment. Well, I really let this guy have it.
My clients took it graciously, but they also saw through the explanation. 40/
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It's total bullsh*t that our congressional floor can be used by Matt Gaetz to share nude images of unknowing women, but that our courts aren't there to give ALL victims justice if that happens. 13/
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Katie Hill suffered a sexual privacy violation of a historic and unprecedented size. Daily Mail published 16 articles about Hill showcasing her nude images to their global audience. In one instance, Daily Mail acknowledged the images were provided by Hill’s ex and that one 5/
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This is just phase 1 of the fight. There's much more in store. Daily Mail may have won this motion, but they will go down in history as a woman-terrorizing sicko publication. And this will get reversed. 14/14
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of the nude images was taken illegally without Hill’s knowledge or consent. In that article the Daily Mail made joke of the fact that the images were supplied in defiance of an order of protection Hill had obtained against her ex just three days prior. 6/
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widely and published by any person or media purporting to have journalistic intentions. This ruling has the exact opposite effect California’s revenge porn intended – which was to reduce and not amplify or promote nude images without consent. 4/
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The CBS producers repeatedly assured us they would be kind and careful with our clients. As a lawyer, it is always very scary to introduce a client to the media when they’re dealing with catastrophic trauma and loss 34/
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Participating was a huge decision for our clients. In one of our cases, the child’s own siblings didn’t know the method she’d used. In another case, the child’s parent was riddled with guilt for obliviously leaving the unopened box containing SN on the counter. 33/
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These clients, though, are motivated to save lives and pressure Amazon to stop selling the product. They were willing to put their own needs second if it meant their child’s death could save others.
Last week, while we were hustling to meet a filing deadline on the new case, 36/
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They wanted to speak to our clients on the record.
We had multiple intense conversations with our clients about what it would mean to participate in a national news story. We vouched for the CBS team and forwarded onto our clients the other pieces they’d done about suicide. 32
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I let them have a Zoom with one set of parents – though not before asking for double confirmation that the project was going forward, because, I explained, every time the parents have to discuss their child’s suicide, it’s traumatizing and breaks their heart in two. 38/
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We insist – and will bring it up in appeal – that revenge porn lawsuits are not speech-based lawsuits. They center around the conduct of nonconsensual sharing – and this is not speech.
ANTI-SLAPP laws were designed to curtail nuisance lawsuits against the media for 11/
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Doesn't trot new clients out for press conferences or media alerts. Scrutiny from the media on top of the loss on top of the tumult of suing on top of their digital footprint forever associated with their loss – it's just too jarring and rarely in the clients’ best interest. 35/
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, I was in frequent communication – calls, texts, zooms -- with the producers who were rushing the story for October. They asked for an exclusive on the new filing. 37/
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Daily Mail could have made the exact same points about Hill – through screenshots of text messages and clothed images – but they instead chose to publish the gratuitous nude images just for the clickbait and cause injury. 8/
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Daily Mail claims, and the Court sadly agrees, that publishing nude images of Hill was newsworthy. Yet, the majority of the images were published after Hill had already left office. And by repeatedly publishing the same images in different stories, 9/
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any purported newsworthiness diminishes. Plus, the regular due diligence we might see in news – fact checking, verifying sources – was not there. There is virtually no precedent where somebody suing for revenge porn has had their case dismissed on grounds of ANTI-Slapp. 10/
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publishing legitimate speech. Today we have victims of revenge porn who are being frozen out – who are losing access to our judicial system and the freedom to dream big if they have anybody in their past with nude images they can share.
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Something extraordinary happened to me. I went to The Met on Fri b/c my favorite painting, Alice Neel's The Fuller Brush Man was on exhibit. Last time the private owners showed it was the year 2000.
This is a story about two Alices.
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My resumé:
— have sued malicious platforms out of existence (RIP Omegle)
— overcame Section 230 4x
— participated in WH executive order on AI that included deepfakes
— Was “expert” for launch of WH Task Force against Online Harms
— have run 5 miles w/ Anti-hero on repeat 🧣
Taylor Swift is said to be considering legal action against the deepfake website that generated explicit AI images of her which circulated online, Daily Mail reports.
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And in addition to fb and IG, You know how a lot of csam and child rape vids gets streamed? FB and Skype and more recently, Zoom. Stored and shared? Dropbox and Amazon servers. Solicited? Discord, Kik
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And huge 💗❤️💕to
@AdamMasseyLaw
@AnnieSeifullah
and Ashley Parris for their brains and stamina in this epic fight. ⚖️💣💥
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1/ So for the last five weeks in quarantine, I've spent nights and weekends archiving about 800 WW2 letters my grandpa sent his hot new wife. After hours putting them into sheaths and binders in chronological order, I'm now typing them up. I've made amazing discoveries.
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Oh! And if you are interested in this very worthy legal fight and want to throw money at it, we love you!!!
And you can contribute toward legal costs here,
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This changes everything. It is the job of Britney’s lawyer to petition to end the guardianship and Ingham never did it. Britney is fully competent to select her own counsel and the judge must allow it.
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The majority of the most ghastly content is not published publicly on porn sites. It’s hoarded and secretly exchanged with as little trace as possible.
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In TX it's easier to sue a rape victim for having an abortion than for her to sue her rapist.
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Get it straight. Our clients aren't fragile like a flower. They're fragile like a bomb.
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@mosquitobight
@WillMcAvoyACN
@naomi_leeds
Don't even have to have a CC. I know kids who purchased it with the Amazon gift cards they got for Xmas.
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As more folks are arrested for the insurrection we are going to see high rate of people with records of intimate partner violence, stalking, and harassment. 1/
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Lawsuits can be not only against the offender but also the institutions (I.e. employer, friend, school, church) protecting them.
For this one-year window, it doesn’t matter how long ago the abuse happened to you.
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Taking over/under on how many DV restraining orders among this group collectively.
My guess is 50
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