Public discussion • Comment #4653
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2026-10-31T18:20:45+00:00
I did some googling. 20 years ago, there was a company called Reputation Defender which used DMCAs to try to squelch speech about a couple of their affluent clients: Yale law students named Heide Iravani and Brittan Heller. When the DMCA route failed, they tried to sue posters on a free-speech discussion board called AutoAdmit. The LOLsuit made national news. Then AutoAdmit countersued for Abuse of Process (inter alia)
It's only tangentially related to the Lucy Craig story, but the free-speech issues are relevant.
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