Thread by @MichaelToole

Let me quickly lay out what this is - the larger of the two beards in this clip is Ty Beard (nominative determinism!!). He's the attorney that Vic Mignona retained for his legal case that we've all had to think about for the past 2 days instead of more fun stuff, like anime.

https://twitter.com/GeneralASC/status/1136853294771367936

Beard's remark in the clip - "Would the Farms be so kind as to 'find out about this guy' for us?" is regarding @greg_doucette, a NC attorney who's spent a merry 48 hours critiquing what looks like a pretty bumptious case for the entertainment of #LawTwitter.

The 'Farms' referenced is Kiwi Farms, your source for internet harassment. Remember Helldump? On the SA forums? KF is basically Diet Helldump, only without HD's rule against bugging targets of their scorn. Lovely people. KF obligingly doxxed Doucette.
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Now, @greg_doucette ran for office a few years ago, so he took it in stride. But to re-iterate: the attorney pressing Mignogna's lawsuit asked for detailed personal info of someone critiquing his case, client, and self to be posted on an infamous harrassment site- and they did it

If twitter let me, I'd have bolded that last tweet. Anyway, KF pulled the same move on me as well, a few months back. I've been doxxed a couple of times before this-- thanks gamergate/CoS!-- so I know the drill. I took a few precautions, monitored the chatter for a few days, etc.

But seeing Mignogna's own lawyer-- senior partner at his own firm!!-- asking for Doucette to be doxxed (oh, ahem, 'found out about') on video was a eureka moment; it makes me wonder how many others doxxed on KF for being adjacent to the Vic affair were done at Beard's request.

Or at his client's request.

Or at the request of the youtube lawyer running the gofundme, the patreon, and selling branded 'FEAR THE BEARD!!' t-shirts and coffee mugs.

(my god, this is all so dumb)

So... help me out, #LawTwitter. I don't know if Beard's been specifically using Kiwifarms as a means to intimidate opposing counsel or defendants-- that does seem kinda farfetched, to be honest. But, uh, so does _THIS_, and we got it on video. Are there consequences for this??