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From the impact statement, https://www.ecommercebytes.com/C/blog/blog.pl?/pl/2024/1/1704995745.html https://www.ecommercebytes.com/C/blog/blog.pl?/pl/2024/1/170

From the impact statement, https://www.ecommercebytes.com/C/blog/blog.pl?/pl/2024/1/1704995745.html https://www.ecommercebytes.com/C/blog/blog.pl?/pl/2024/1/170... > After today's announcement, we remain determined to push for answers and do whatever we possibly can to ensure that no corporation ever feels that the option exists for them to squash a person's First Amendment rights ... Judge William G. Young, with nearly four decades on the federal bench, told the defendant, "This is one of the most important cases upon which this Court has ever sat. This out-of-control group of which you were a central part is, if not stopped now and stopped completely, an extraordinary danger to our country. Make no doubt about it, the skills that you employed to go cyberstalking are an extreme danger, and when you put those skills to service of some large corporate entity with economic power to go after individuals and squash down their speech, we are all at risk. All of us." Documentary premieres at SXSW, March 2024 in Austin, TX, one year before the trial date for the civil lawsuit, https://variety.com/2024/film/global/ebay-cyberstalking-documentary-whatever-it-takes-fremantle-sxsw-1235867315/ https://variety.com/2024/film/global/ebay-cyberstalking-docu... > This film is a jaw-dropping story about one of the most revolutionary companies in Silicon Valley. One of our goals was to understand how did these events happen in the first place and what is a corporation’s moral responsibility when things go wrong. U.S. Department of Justice resources for cyberbullying and cyberstalking, https://www.ojp.gov/feature/internet-safety/cyberbullying-and-cyberstalking https://www.ojp.gov/feature/internet-safety/cyberbullying-an...

andsoitis 3y ago
> no corporation ever feels that the option exists for them to squash a person's First Amendment rights But the article states: "The employees in question were fired by eBay shortly after the incident."
- Arainach 3y ago
  Fired for getting caught, not for what they did.
- walterbell 3y ago
  From the US court filing, https://www.universalhub.com/images/2024/ebay-information.pdf https://www.universalhub.com/images/2024/ebay-information.pd... [CEO] Executive 1 texted Executive 2: "Ina is out with a hot piece on the litigation. If we are ever going to take her down..now is the time." ... Baugh asked [CCO] Executive 2 by message, "If I can neutralize Ina's website in two weeks or less, does that work for you?" Within minutes, Executive 2 responded: "I want to see ashes. As long as it takes. Whatever it takes." ... Hi [Executive 2] - this is Jim Baugh's personal cell. My team ran an Op on our friend in Boston. Nothing illegal occurred and we were actually intending to team up with her and get her on our side in a positive manner. However, small town police got a couple of rental car plates and tracked it back to my people and the hotel the were staying at. They sent a note to ebay investigations GAP team who then passed it to legal and they are conducting an internal investigation on us. We are cooperating, but I know they realize something is off. We will continue to cooperate, but not sure how much longer we can keep this up. If there is any way to get some top cover that would be great. If not, I just wanted you to have a heads up because they are aware that multiple members of the ELT are not a fan of that website to include ___ and his wife. Again, no crime was committed and local police don't have a case. I don't want our legal team to give them one. Let me know if you want to discuss this weekend. ... The Individual Defendants took steps to conceal their harassment campaign from eBay investigators and state and federal authorities, by, among other things, using non-eBay electronic communications platforms, billing expenses related to the campaign to an outside contractor, monitoring law enforcement communications, forging records, lying to investigators, and destroying evidence.

andsoitis 3y ago

> no corporation ever feels that the option exists for them to squash a person's First Amendment rights But the article states: "The employees in question were fired by eBay shortly after the incident."

Arainach 3y ago
Fired for getting caught, not for what they did.
walterbell 3y ago
From the US court filing, https://www.universalhub.com/images/2024/ebay-information.pdf https://www.universalhub.com/images/2024/ebay-information.pd... [CEO] Executive 1 texted Executive 2: "Ina is out with a hot piece on the litigation. If we are ever going to take her down..now is the time." ... Baugh asked [CCO] Executive 2 by message, "If I can neutralize Ina's website in two weeks or less, does that work for you?" Within minutes, Executive 2 responded: "I want to see ashes. As long as it takes. Whatever it takes." ... Hi [Executive 2] - this is Jim Baugh's personal cell. My team ran an Op on our friend in Boston. Nothing illegal occurred and we were actually intending to team up with her and get her on our side in a positive manner. However, small town police got a couple of rental car plates and tracked it back to my people and the hotel the were staying at. They sent a note to ebay investigations GAP team who then passed it to legal and they are conducting an internal investigation on us. We are cooperating, but I know they realize something is off. We will continue to cooperate, but not sure how much longer we can keep this up. If there is any way to get some top cover that would be great. If not, I just wanted you to have a heads up because they are aware that multiple members of the ELT are not a fan of that website to include ___ and his wife. Again, no crime was committed and local police don't have a case. I don't want our legal team to give them one. Let me know if you want to discuss this weekend. ... The Individual Defendants took steps to conceal their harassment campaign from eBay investigators and state and federal authorities, by, among other things, using non-eBay electronic communications platforms, billing expenses related to the campaign to an outside contractor, monitoring law enforcement communications, forging records, lying to investigators, and destroying evidence.