I’m surprised they teamed up with the Kiwi Farms admins as plaintiffs in this lawsuit. Neither of these companies have an abundance of goodwill, but at least 4chan has a more “mainstream” (memestream?) reputation. Kiwi Farms on the other hand, is either unknown or generally disreputable. And anyone who googles them will not find favorable coverage.
I suspect they’ll win this case in the US, maybe triggering some JD Vance lecture to the UK. The outcome will be mostly meaningless, but even a political outcome is less likely with the Kiwi Farms participation. That’s a bad move on all fronts IMO.
A US company located in the US protected by the US government and complying with US and only laws. Which would mean, when viewed in another country, they are exporting? And need to be paying their tariffs on all the ads they are exporting and views and clicks they are importing (I think we can assume the content is of zero value)?
It would be very surprising if they lost on this, but I question what exactly winning would truly accomplish? The concept of a foreign legal enforcement agency appearing in a US court seems very strange to me.
I suspect they’ll win this case in the US, maybe triggering some JD Vance lecture to the UK. The outcome will be mostly meaningless, but even a political outcome is less likely with the Kiwi Farms participation. That’s a bad move on all fronts IMO.