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Anyone can be scammed. In fact, the easiest people to scam are those who think they would never fall for a scam. Scammers prey on the way our brains work -- normal brain functions and biases. The grandparent scam is a particularly pernicious scam. The scammer starts the conversation with "hello gran...

Looks like he violated his gag order tonight on his social media. If he's not trying to get himself fined and then possibly put in jail in the future, then he's just too stupid not to throw a fit in public. We'll see how the judge responds. From the thing Res posted upthread, it looks like the fine...

Looks like he violated his gag order tonight on his social media. If he's not trying to get himself fined and then possibly put in jail in the future, then he's just too stupid not to throw a fit in public. We'll see how the judge responds. From the thing Res posted upthread, it looks like the fine...

If you want your own megathread, you could just start one.

As this issue has legal ramifications, I'd really appreciate input from the other lawyers on the board and anyone else who has followed this issue in terms of my reading of the law. These issues are out of my area legally, but, I will look at Section 230 and commentary and then chime in if the issu...

The Church News article never made sense to me. At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in late 2019 and early 2020, the Church counted some 69,000 young teaching and service missionaries and senior missionaries. The pandemic resulted in international closures and restriction and the resulting return ...

I think the combination of the gravity of the claims combined with the refusal to provide facts likely generates a feeling of discomfort for all of us. In a way, it functions like gaslighting. Maybe whatever our opinions are of Dehlin and the Open Stories Foundation are wildly wrong and Dehlin is S...

Listen, if Rosebud were posting on a variety of topics, then NBD. It’s the one-note posters who spam the board occasionally like the few that have a megathread dedicated to them. If Rosebud were suddenly to start posting on whatever topic in whatever forum(s) then cool, she’s engaging with the inte...

Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act protects the board, it owner, the site host, etc. from liability. It does not protect the individual who posts defamatory material. Responding to discovery requests would be a hassle, but that's about it. https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/R/R4...

Having done my level best to understand the child abuse Rosebud is referring to, I think it's the claims of organized, ritualistic child abuse allegedly embedded in, or covered up by, the organization of the LDS church. We've discussed such claims, sometimes in great detail, from time to time here. ...