Curious. I can't see why the two threads in 'health' would have been the cause all this. Although I would bet money that it was DJ who erased them. I could be wrong, but it's in line with his m.o.
So those were removed but I really can't see them being the problem. So what's left? SD and GDS. But the SD thread has been pretty quiet and tame for awhile now. Seems silly to make a big deal of it now, after all this time.
So when we post, is that legally publishing? Or is it considered the same way a comment at a town hall would be?
Regardless of who or why, seems petty and small to try to give gene trouble over user content. It's not like he openly facilitates hate, no matter what he personally thinks about the topics.
If you do negotiate a resolution and in that deal involves KFM to not disclose anything, I guess that's that. But if they can I hope the order is published for all to see.
i agree, this is just bizzare.
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unfortunately way our legal system works, not matter how frivolous (read STUPID) a company has to respond to a cease and dessist letter. One just has to wonder though what mind thinks it is worth their time (and money) to have a lawyer send a letter to an internet board saying 'stop posts that annoy my client"...
Maybe it's the chi healers...
Who calls a lawyer over some random internet bullshit anyways? So weird. Sucks for Gene, now he has to spend time/money top resolve this.
what's worse than the complaint itself is that the whiners don't even have the balls to man-up that they are even making the complaint, in terms of the C&D itself being private - it's like they r saying, "we don't want people saying mean things about us, but at the same time we don't want them to know that we don't want them to say mean things about us"; gimmie a break;
and WTF w them wanting to ban Dave? I mean, I know he can b inflammatory, but frankly nothing he's done since he came back has been directed at any group w the exception that he called a CMC video crap; I mean, if that's grounds for a C&D, I don't know what to say...
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