The Supreme Dark Lord & The Big Bear Go To Lawfare

I watch the Darkstream--Vox Day's regular livestreams--on about as regular a basis as he does them. I'd known about what happened to Owen Benjamin within hours of Owen himself saying so on his livestream, and any other successes and setbacks come up regularly on the Darkstream as well as on his blog. Therefore, when the Supreme Dark Lord began to talk about some party or parties not only shit-talking about him and Owen on the Internet, but also attempting to interfere with their business--to fuck his their money, if not more--I sat up and took notice.

I've observed the man long enough to know that he's neither as ego-fueled nor as fragile as his detractors claim. He's like Dalton in Roadhouse: Nice, until it's time to not be nice.

It's time to not be nice.

As a wise man once said, "Don't mess with a man's money." In law one of the ways you can run afoul of this is tortious interference, and deplatforming is just that: you, a third party with no standing to intervene into a contractual relationship, doing exactly that with no legal authority to do so. Add in threats--veiled or not--of doing harm to the party you're attempting to have break their contractual relationship, be it physical or otherwise, and you're going to go from civil to criminal right quick.

This, folks, is what I'm getting is going on here. Some dumb motherfuckers are going after Owen and Vox's revenue, and they're using racketeering methods to do so, in addition to brute-force hack attempts into arms of Vox's business operations. As this also includes Owen getting SWATted, then I feel no pity for the morons messing with either man. I will just get the popcorn and watch the show.

If you thought Vox's ability to make Amazon undo their hit on Castalia House, Indiegogo's bending the knee, Patreon change their Terms of Service just to avoid dealing with him, and the Hugos pulling an An Hero to spite the Vox Man was something else then this will really be one to watch. Globally-based hit operations opens up global choice of legal venues, and now the game is afoot- and Vox is a master at wargaming.

These punks are going to wish they accepted his offer to back down.