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Crowdfunding Justice?

I have been following for a week or so now a situation in the anime/nerd realms on a you tube channel
called Rekieta Law. This channel hosted by a lawyer who goes through cases involving the internet and other
matters of  law he finds interesting.

 He has been following a case involving a voice actor who was twitter mobbed and then fired from all of his current employment and disinvited to many events. Deciding that this situation was unjust he helped set up a crowdfunding campaign for the actor to help defray legal costs and encourage substantive legal action. One of his stated goals was to bring the situation into a court room were rumor and twitter court could be fact checked and the twitter mob would have to back up their statements under oath and thus redress the damage done.

Legal disputes often resemble old world battles in that he who has the most gold hires the best and more
numerous army. If somebody has better and more numerous lawyers they are far better equipped to fight
a legal battle.  If one side can raise more crowdfunded funds and ends up with a favorable result in a civil
action how does this differ from the twitter mob.

Ultimately I was left with several interesting questions.

  • How ethical is crowdfunding personal civil law matters?
  • If it is a civil matter or a criminal matter should it be treated differently?
  • Is what I perceive to be an SJW twitter mob in this case messing with my ability to be at all objective?
  • Do we need to spend our money to stop this type of SJW Twitter/social media mob?

I apologize for the weird formatting I think it is a hold over from the text document i temporarily stored it in. Only weird in public version. 

8 replies on “Crowdfunding Justice?”

Personally, I like the idea of crowd funded justice. Often our constitutionally enumerated rights are moot, because we simply cannot afford to defend them in a court of law. As an example, let’s say someone’s firearms are confiscated in a “Red Flag” order. The order may be completely without merit, but since it is free to file for the order, and it is not free to challenge the order, the worthless infringement of an innocent individual’s civil rights will stand.

yep Against the govn’t all the ethical questions seem less important. One side has such an overwhelming advantage you can use every advantage.
[spoiler title=” “]and rEd flag laws Suck[/spoiler]

There is the case going on now of Tommy Robinson in the UK where all of his legal representation is being paid for by small donations from around the world, including Australia, where I am. Seems like a pretty good result, and I wouldn’t say that legal results are exactly proportional to funding, just that a certain amount is required to ensure that both sides are fairly heard.

Yes It can definitely help get help people get to court who wouldn’t otherwise be able. Especially in Tommys case as the government has been messing with his finances for years. I think this example is good in that one side has more resources and a little help can even the playing field.

Good post. You ask questions that are spawned by the side-effects and abilities of our increased ability to communicate, thanks to internet technology.

The whole world is reverberating to the gong that was rung with a galactic sledgehammer when somebody decided to connect two remote computer systems together. We still don’t know where it’s going to end up.

What happens when I want to crowdfund the development and deployment of a weapon? How hard would it be to generate the funds to explore modifications to deadly virii? And is this entire situation any different from a “meta-organism” exercising its will, built from the living rock of the world’s computer-literate population, so to speak?

Personally I’m all for the crowdfunding of WMDs. I really want my own nuclear weapon. Nothing outrageous just a megaton or so to keep the neighbors in line.

A megaton is overkill for the neighbors, a dial-a-boom set to about 25kT is fine. Save the bigger one for the building department.

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