Everytown v. DEFCAD goes to the Second Circuit

November 15, 2021

Legion,

Last week was a busy one for Everytown and their pet judge in SDNY. These good liberals thought they had DEFCAD and Odysee over a barrel, and so tried to stick us with a number of ex parte orders with no procedural protections or means of appeal. Fortunately, DEFCAD and FPC had already briefed the arguments and were prepared for just such an attempted fucking!

See in our theory, there is no low of which the SDNY and Everytown are not capable. No corner they will not cut. You’re always safer when you assume your enemy is a malicious liar, their pet judges are complicit morons, and that you’ll have to prepare emergency appeals to higher courts.

And so the Second Circuit stayed our case late last week (21-2806), and afforded our platforms the very basics of procedural protection. Twitter sent an impressive and dismissive letter to the Everytown camp too.

You may be interested to know The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) will apply with the court as an amicus curiae and brief the importance of anonymous speech and the use of trademarks as expressive under the First Amendment.

Anyway, this has now become a fair fight with important First Amendment and digital rights issues presented the right way. This, I humbly submit, is why you want a platform like DEFCAD as a beachhead in the GunCAD movement.

If you’d like to support this litigation, please join LEGIO.