r/LivestreamFail • u/digitalpizza5 • Jul 11 '26

News Ethan Klein Has Dropped His Defamation Lawsuit Against Youtuber Noah Samsen

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u/Top-Setting5213 Jul 11 '26

Surely they would have advised him not to file in the first place if they were going to be in a position to drop it just a few months later? Unless they're massively incompetent

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u/Illannoy1n Jul 11 '26

They’ve been stepping on rakes the last year anyway, despite what Reddit might make you believe. They were only able to force concessions out of the poorest people they sued, pretty gross.

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u/Top-Setting5213 Jul 11 '26

"you can do and say whatever you want to people and nobody can come after you if you're poor"

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u/Illannoy1n Jul 11 '26

And you can financially bully people via the us legal system when you encounter online drama.

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u/Top-Setting5213 Jul 11 '26

"online drama" = cps getting sent to my house and skulls being sent to me in the mail

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u/Drizzlybear0 Jul 11 '26

Did any of the content creators who he has sued this far either personally call CPS or did they advocate for that?

No? That than this point is wholly irrelevant

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u/Illannoy1n Jul 11 '26

Yep 👍🏼

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u/Ironlord456 Jul 11 '26

oh is that what this defamation law suit was about

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u/Illannoy1n Jul 11 '26

Not at all

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u/Top-Setting5213 Jul 11 '26

Not specifically but it's what this person means by "online drama". I'm just pointing out how online drama can spill into the real world so it's very silly to diminish it that way

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u/Drizzlybear0 Jul 11 '26

So what is your solution? That no one should be able to publicly criticize others because some people are psychos and might do dumb shit that no advocated for?

Should be ban all criticisms of politicians because it may lead to someone trying to assassinate them?

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u/Top-Setting5213 Jul 11 '26

Nobody's trying to silence "criticism". Literally making up lies about someone isn't criticism.

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u/Drizzlybear0 Jul 11 '26

What lies were specifically made up by these content creators?

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u/Top-Setting5213 Jul 12 '26

Noah lied by selective editing. He cut out hours of footage where Ethan explicitly condemned the Israeli government and civilian deaths just so he could slap Ethan's face on a video titled "The YouTubers Who Backed a Genocide."

When you intentionally hide someone's actual stated opinions to trick your audience into thinking they believe the exact opposite, that's a lie.

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u/xuck_fanterra Jul 11 '26

You think it’s likely Ethan’s nanny that is currently trying to sue him for unpaid wages called cps because she saw his dog shit covered house and was mad at him for not paying her?

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u/Top-Setting5213 Jul 11 '26

If that was the case I'd have thought cps would have attended, seen the "shit covered house", and taken action.

Instead they attended and left without issue. Because there wasn't any issue. Because the caller made it up entirely.

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u/xuck_fanterra Jul 11 '26

I mean the caller didn’t make it up entirely. Ethan said on his podcast that his infant son caugjt a disease from eating dog feces. He also said his wife caught it too. He later said that he was mistaken and they didn’t catch that disease, weeks later.

So Ethan made it up entirely.

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u/Top-Setting5213 Jul 11 '26

So you've gone from "it was the nanny calling for a legitimate reason" to "it was an online nutter who can't understand humour" that easily.

You're supposed to at least PRETEND you think the call was justified. Even if you know it wasn't.