from the bro,-fb-isn’t-prime-pee-video-territory dept
All hail Jason Fyk, one of the aggrieved “failure to monetize piss movies” dudes ever. In reality, he could be the solely individual angered about his incapacity to show pee into money with third-party content material that includes individuals urinating.
Something that provides me an opportunity to embed this video (which additionally served because the final piss take assessment of a Jet album by snarky music criticism overlords, Pitchfork) is welcomed, regardless of how incremental the incident:
First, that is an ape, not a monkey. Second, whereas there’s undoubtedly a marketplace for movies of individuals urinating, it’s not on Fb. It’s on any website that makes room for that individual kink, which implies any porn website nonetheless in operation will host the content material with out grievance, even when it limits your monetization choices.
Jason Fyk’s misplaced anger and lengthy string of courtroom losses stems from his unwillingness/incapacity to grasp why any social media website might need an issue with this specific get [slightly] wealthy[er] scheme.
Fyk was already making loads of cash together with his Fb pages, if his personal authorized complaints are to be believed. Let’s test in with the writer of this put up, who has beforehand coated this extraordinarily specific topic:
[T]hings have been going good for Jason Fyk, not less than as of a decade in the past. He had 40 Fb pages, 28 million “likes” and a possible viewers of 260 million. Then it (allegedly)(partially) got here crashing down. Fyk created a web page Fb didn’t like. Fb took it down. That left Fyk with not less than 39 different money-making pages however he nonetheless felt slighted to the extent he determined to begin suing.
And sue he did! In fact, none of those lawsuits went wherever. Not that Fyk hasn’t tried. He’s spent a lot of the final eight years hoping to smuggle a win out of federal courtroom underneath the full-length costume of Girl Justice. Fyk misplaced and misplaced and misplaced and sued the federal government over Part 230 itself and misplaced and misplaced and misplaced.
Final yr’s appellate Hail Mary from the would-be Pee King of Fb was coated by Eric Goldman, who is aware of a factor or a number of about Part 230 and Part 230 lawsuits. Some Fyk fatigue was exhibited in Goldman’s December 2024 headline:
How Many Occasions Should the Courts Say “No” to This Man?–Fyk v. Fb
Goldman’s put up recommended there could be a option to dissuade Fyk from growing his shedding streak:
Fyk argued that the legislation relating to anticompetitive animus had modified throughout his 6-year-long litigation quest, citing the Enigma v. Malwarebytes and Lemmon v. Snap selections. Nonetheless, the Ninth Circuit beforehand rejected the implications of Malwarebytes for Fyk’s case in its final ruling, and “Lemmon says nothing about whether or not Part 230(c)(1) shields social-media suppliers for content-moderation selections made with anticompetitive animus.” With none change within the related legislation, the courtroom simply dismisses the case once more. Remarkably, the courtroom doesn’t impose any sanctions for what some courts might need felt was vexatious relitigation of resolved issues.
And that’s what Fyk does greatest: make arguments that make no sense, cite irrelevant courtroom selections, and customarily waste everybody’s tax {dollars} and time. Right here’s what the Ninth Circuit Appeals Courtroom mentioned to Fyk the final time round:
The remaining instances Fyk cites are unpublished, dissenting, out-of-circuit, or district-court opinions, which aren’t binding on this circuit and subsequently don’t represent a change within the legislation.
Fyk is nothing if not persistent. Regardless of being rejected by the Supreme Courtroom within the last yr of what was alleged to be Trump’s solely presidential time period, Fyk determined his newest loss within the Ninth Circuit demanded one other swing at Supreme Courtroom certification.
And regardless of sure Supreme Courtroom justices getting super-weird about content material moderation because it’s stopping their buddies from going Nazi on important, Fyk return to the highest courtroom within the land ends like his final one: a single line underneath the heading “Certiorari Denied” in SCOTUS’s most up-to-date order checklist launch. Even justices sympathetic to unhealthy individuals who wish to be even worse on-line (as long as they maintain sure “conservative views“) aren’t keen to die on Fyk’s piss-soaked hill, regardless of how a lot urine of his personal he sprays whereas wrongly correcting individuals about Part 230. His grievance is, as soon as once more, as useless because the banned account he’s been suing about for a lot of the final decade.
Filed Beneath: content material moderation, frivolous lawsuit, jason fyk, lolsuit, part 230
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