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Agreed. While the Federal Government is not directly involved at the moment, the complaining party is threatening to use the judicial system and, by inference, the weight and power of the US to squash the target site. If we had a loser-pays system, it might just be a different story; the web site might win not only the suit but a healthy counter-claim as well.

Alas, that is not the case and one can only hope that organizations like the ACLU would step in to defend the little guy. Not likely but there must be right-thinking organizations that would. Perhaps our own Jim Rob might have some private advice to pass along.

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Loser Pays would solve this supression of Free Speech in a heartbeat. This is the law in the civilized democratic world. Loser pays is also just simple justice.

The action by this evil, corrupt lawfirm is technically known as a SLAPP, a strategic lawsuit against public participation.

SLAPPs use the extreme expense of litigation for a innocent party to legally defend against fale charges, in order to shut down free speech and public participation.

In Loser Pays, the crooked lawfirm and its Hollywood Left clients would have to pay all the expenses of the little website.