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Mike Cernovich
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Mike Cernovich's personal blog at cernovich.com covers politics and culture. Since 2020, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “Patreon Faces New Legal Peril Under California Law”. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Mike Cernovich's posts on Patreon's mandatory arbitration clause and a Patreon lawsuit against Owen Benjamin, and one links his post on Ryan Broderick's tweets. The comments cite the posts without judging the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Mike Cernovich is a leading independent journalist, filmmaker and author.
Most-linked posts?
- Patreon Faces New Legal Peril Under California Law3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-02-12
- Patreon Loses Lawsuit Against Owen Benjamin Fans2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-07-30
What Hacker News says?
Regardless of if it was a drop in the bucket to their revenue, their probable acts of tortious interference could cause material arbitration costs to them for deplatformed creators that chose to open arbitration cases against them: https://www.cernovich.com/patreon-mandatory-arbitration/
Comment linking /patreon-mandatory-arbitration/
on “Patreon lays off 13% of workforce”Submitted Patreon Loses Lawsuit Against Owen Benjamin Fans as a story · 17 points
HN discussion>I wonder if consumers could use forced arbitration in the same way. They can. Patreon is about to be hit really hard for playing thought policeman. https://www.cernovich.com/patreon-mandatory-arbitration/
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on “DoorDash drivers use arbitration clause to force DoorDash into arbitration”Submitted Patreon denied injunction to avoid JAMS arbitration [pdf] as a story · 2 points
HN discussionActually, no, that is not clear at all. What is clear is that Ryan Broderick demonstrated ideation of a sexual nature with underage children on multiple posts. There were numerous other items from his tumblr and instagram which make it clear broderick was not being satirical. See the screengrabs captured here https://www.cernovich.com/ryan-broderick-racist-tweets-vile-... OR here https://www.zerohedge.com/political/…
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on “Twitter's community verification system will be a disaster”Submitted Patreon Faces New Legal Peril Under California Law as a story · 2 points
HN discussion>You can thank a clever lawyer for thinking of mandatory arbitration clauses that are making class-actions a thing of the past. Those "lawyers" aren't nearly as clever as they seem to think they are: https://www.cernovich.com/patreon-lawsuit-owen-benjamin/
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on “Activision’s Faulty Anti-Cheat Software”