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Your Voldemort reference was genuinely hilarious. It also evokes a real unnameableness embedded in this subject: that US courts have determined it slanderous to
by plink 8y ago
Your Voldemort reference was genuinely hilarious. It also evokes a real unnameableness embedded in this subject: that US courts have determined it slanderous to speak the term "ponzi" in describing the DeVos family's great American fortune.
- WillPostForFood 8y agoUS courts have determined it slanderous to speak the term "ponzi" in describing the DeVos family's great American fortune Do you have a citation for that? People criticize Amway as a pyramid or Ponzi scheme all the time.
- plink 8y agoTouché! Such a citation would help elevate my post out of the realm of mere glibness. I must apologize, though, that it wasn’t a court case but an FTC decision: https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/documents/commission_decision_volumes/volume-93/ftc_volume_decision_93_january_-_june_1979pages_618-738.pdf https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/documents/commission... On a related point, I am unable to prove, owing to the destruction of many DeVos family documents in the Great Fire of Massachusetts’s port town of Innsmouth, that Betsy DeVos’s real maiden name is humanly unpronounceable and that the Blackwater Company is a cryptic nod to Lake R’lyeh.