Kiwi Pot Pie
Hellovan Onion
It is not as pointless or irresponsible as you are saying. Josh is suing LFJ so that a judge pre-emptively dismisses LFJ's copyright violation claim he has raised against him. The way the law is set up means Josh HAS to sue LFJ now, otherwise LFJ gets another piece of ammo against him to use in his own lawsuit against Kiwi Farms. And this is no empty threat from LFJ since he is using a loophole in copyright law to legally remove posts in his thread. The problem for LFJ is that Kiwi Farms has a good case for fair use therefore LFJ is committing DMCA abuse.So what do I see when Jersh is being once again financially irresponsible? He decides to sue a troon that hasn't been a threat to Internet free speech since the days of Keffals. Didn't Jersh just recently put it on record that if he finds himself in legal trouble again that may be the end of Kiwi Farms? So why is he suing a troon most people on the Internet have forgotten now and there is a high possibility that he may either lose in his lawsuit or his lawsuit gets diminished by a judge? That money that the Kiwis have donated to Jersh for this lolsuit may likely be in vain.
I think Josh started poorly in this lawsuit. He should have complied with the DMCA request, put up a passive aggressive message explaining why it was censored (like he does for all the revenge porn he has to remove), and fought the DMCA in court. Leaving it up has opened him to additional liability and potentially killed a very winnable case before it even began (remember the Greer case) or maybe even opened him to getting far more legal penalty (to the tune of 300,000 dollars).
Basically this was always going to be a lawsuit since the alternative is letting LFJ moderate his own thread and no doubt other threads using the DMCA, the only difference is who sued who first. I do not believe Josh will continue to sue LFJ if he wins, since Josh lacks any claim on him (beside getting the court to rule that LFJ's DMCA claims are bunk). Beside, why would Josh want to sue LFJ when he can take advantage of him as the scary litigious bogeyman about to snuff out free speech on the internet unless you donate to the "United States Internet Preservation Society." Actually winning a lawsuit against him (for what, I have no idea, hence why Josh would lose an actual lawsuit against LFJ) would mean less donations.
As for the mysterious jump in people writing Josh checks, I think it is obvious that a big financial donor (Gabe Hoffman maybe) just dropped Josh a few thousand bucks and Josh updated the stats to give the impression there are hundreds of new donors. Josh is absolutely going to milk the "free speech under attack" angle because like I said, this is a grifter vs grifter lawsuit.



