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I wish someone would make a KickStarter for legal stuff. I've seen enough of these that it could be a real business. (Ex: help pay for a defense against some g
by nostromo 14y ago
I wish someone would make a KickStarter for legal stuff.
I've seen enough of these that it could be a real business. (Ex: help pay for a defense against some government intrusion, or RIAA overreaching, or to bring a case to challenge an unconstitutional statute, or to overturn a dumb pantent, or whatever).
It could even evolve into a platform for the political moneybomb we've seen before. (A bounty for the first person to introduce some bill, for example: patent reform.)
- sillysaurus 14y agoActually, a Kickstarter for legal defense is a good idea.
- shill 14y agoIt is a good idea. Unfortunately, the Obama administration is STILL fighting for indefinite detention powers[1] even after Judge Forrest's NDAA ruling[2]. The owner and users of a legal defense kickstarter could be at risk of indefinite imprisonment without trial if a cause was somehow linked to 'terrorism'. 1. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/14/ndaa-case-indefinite-dentention_n_1885204.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/14/ndaa-case-indefinit... 2. http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5h_ZWg1DMubxpzgZlf58WFOZN415A?docId=560c3298937e445ca6cb325e18c3ab8b http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5h_ZWg1DMub...
- tptacek 14y agoYou have to be pretty dumb to believe that the owners and users of a legal defense Kickstarter could face indefinite detention. The myriad of utterly retarded message board arguments you could hide behind to make this claim are so obviously numerous and complicated that I'm not touching this thread with a ten foot pole. Just chiming in to say, "no".
- kunle 14y agoPretty sure crowdtilt (www.crowdtilt.com) allows you to do this already. (Full disclosure - I'm friends with the founders)