I’ve been writing Boing Boing since 2001, and this year has seen more legal threats for critical posts about big companies than any time since our inception.
And that’s just the activity of wealthy entities trying to use the good ol’ American civil justice system to try (and fail) to bully and intimidate BB authors into silence. Imagine an alternate court system that would just act on the wealthy entity’s word and … well, you don’t have to imagine it, that’s Facebook or any other walled-garden media environment.
