A couple of small updates. The litigation fund online seems to have hit $159,000 but in the thread it was mentioned there's a further $5,000+ dollars in postal orders, cheques, etc. So looks like not merely has the farms met its target of $75,000 necessary to fund the lawsuit but has smashed through $160,000 barrier. It's slowed from the initial rush of course but people are still donating. I honestly think people are just so happy to find a way to push back at all this stuff at last.
But aside from the amounts, Null's lawyers have now filed a petition to the US Supreme Court. Yes, the actual US Supreme Court. It's about a one in a hundred chance it gets heard - and that's not a figure of speech, that's how many petitions get heard each year out of how many are submitted. What happens now is that clerks of the Supreme Court who have to review all the petitions pull out ones they think are valid and have importance for the supreme justices' attention. Now this isn't specifically about the defamations and libels about the Farm, which is something else and what most of this discussion has been about, it's to do with a separate case and involves copyright law. However, it has some impact on the first potentially because there have been some screwy rulings at the lower courts that allow the shutting down of websites and if this gets heard by the SC then it bolsters the defences web sites have against frivolous or malicious lawsuits. I'm not a lawyer - this is just how I read it and from comments on it. But just the possibility that KiwiFarms might make it to the Supreme Court is hilarious and great. The Farms is becoming the fulcrum on which so much to do with what you're allowed to say and how you can be shut down balances on. A real Mr. Moon Goes to Washington.
I presume MN does not allow one to link to threads on the Farms?