Asking Journalists to Pay for Merely Reporting Violent Abuse Against Women (and Telling Them to Kill Themselves)
THE American economy is in a terrible state right now. Unless you're some billionaire who controls the media, you're either working for those who control all the capital (billionaires included) or making ends meet, possibly with some "credit" (loan) card.
As regular readers are likely aware by now, for material we published years ago some likely broke man without a proper job (except in a company made up or invented by him) wants money. Instead of doing work, he has paid some brats or "guns for hire" to constantly send me threats, having also sent threats to others and literally begged for censorship.
The main problem here is that Mr. Graveley is being dishonest*. Fathom the audacity of someone wanting to get paid - a "payday" - for assaulting women and telling them to kill themselves. By terrorising those who mention what happened Mr. Graveley only makes things a lot worse for himself, set aside the Streisand Effect.
The economy in the US may be really bad, but that does not entitle one to engage in litigation tourism here in the UK. The public deserves to know that there are censorship attempts over facts. We stand by women and victims, and we always have in fact. The reason there are prominent NGOs on our side is that SLAPP-chaining is a low blow and guaranteeing that it fails will set a good precedent. █
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* To be clear, this is about "reputation management" (laundering) by censorship via threats, not about privacy. They do not value privacy; they violated my privacy, they violated my wife's privacy, they violated my family's privacy etc. The law firm uses Facebook for spying on people with HIV and then "targeting" them. To quote: "Brett Wilson LLP's ad, which promotes its "solicitors specialising in breach of confidence claims", comes after the 56 Dean Street sexual health clinic accidentally emailed 780 patients revealing their identities to each other. [...] Several days later, Brett Wilson solicitors paid for the "suggested post" on Facebook, which reaches those who have not already liked a page, product or company, therefore enabling an advert to reach a wider, targeted audience."
So much for "privacy"... hypocrites!