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Josiah got Patrick's express permission to record on multiple occasions, there are also no issues of mistaken identity, as there are plenty of journalists whose pen name is different than their legal name. There's no such thing as a "fake journalist". This isn't the UK. Anyone can engage in journalist. You don't need a loisence.
They probably want their members to at least know that they "put up a fight" when their member's info was requested, also they are still under the delusion that not everybody knows that they just flushed $100,000 down the toilet by giving it to a brand new member (who is a straight white male) for free even though the official policy is that members must pay those back.
I still don't buy they gave away $100k with no strings attached. It would be colossally dumb even for them. Why would they not follow their established protocol of giving it as a loan?
Here's my guess.
They've got two protocols (both of which Jerry's included in his filing), one for loaning money, and one for just giving it away ("a grant").
They do not want undeniable proof that they had any meaningful connection with this lawsuit or that they funded a suit that had no chance at succeeding because A) it was challenging the first amendment and B) proving defamation is effectively impossible.
Probably something to do with taxes - they don’t want to flag anything to the IRS because once you’re on their radar, they’re not leaving until they find something.
While I'm not disputing your points, I think C) "it had nothing to do with the charity's mission and was an inappropriate use of charity funds", is the big sticking point.
I 100% agree with everything except I would absolutely argue that they did “harm” other members.
Their rationale was probably that they believed Pat's lawyer was going to get all 60 Does' names, win each suit against them, and defeat the trolls bothering their members once and for all. Remember, Mary-Robinette made a huge stink about those Goodreads reviews. It became personal for them.
The fact that they thought they were going after 60 people with the possibility of them being in all 50 states is just insane to me. That could potentially cost around a million when all wad said and done if they were able to get everyone's name and then file an additional suit in each state.
I'm pretty sure Pat wanted $50K in damages from each of us. As he won each case, he'd aquire enough funding to pursue each following Doe. 1.2 logic.
And that doesn't even include the fact that most defamation lawsuits fail or that many states have Anti-SLAP laws against this kind of shit
You're "pretty sure"? Or just making up random shit? Cunt.
It was either that or he was seeking $50k in total
Yeah it was 50k each out of 60 does, totalling $3,000,000
I know America's litigious and everything but the idea that you can sue a private person for saying a public figure is fat and his books are shit and win is retard level stuff. I wonder how many of these other SFWA people are 1.7s? (1.2 minus PE credits)
