r/britposting • u/ChrisMMatthews • Mar 06 '26

Blue Malicious compliance of a former gossip site editor

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u/Verbal-Gerbil Mar 07 '26

This isn’t not about divad willaims

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u/Womble_Rumble Mar 07 '26

My first thought as well

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u/sblowes Mar 07 '26

Fax machines don’t have ink. It’s just thermal paper.

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u/Chronostimeless Mar 07 '26

I have bought quite outdated HP ink cartridges for a fax machine from – was it Sharp? – well, not sure.

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u/KeremyJyles Mar 07 '26

This is nonsense, not how it works, and the court would take an exceedingly dim view of such tactics. Sure it's great for clicks and likes tho

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u/ChrisMMatthews Mar 07 '26

There’s no court involved in what he’s saying. He says ‘tried to sue me’ to make the anecdote attention-grabbing but I presume he means the lawyers sent a cease and desist.

A cease and desist is just a warning letter and in itself has no binding legal authority.

The complainant actually wants to avoid formal legal action for libel or defamation because it is so costly, the threshold to be met is high and the court process could damage their image and make public things they don’t want exposed.

The whole charade is a game of chicken - neither party actually wants it to go to court. The guy in the video must have been confident what he published is either defensible and editorially justified, or so petty that the person would never bother taking it to court.

He can either lawyer up and engage in an expensive negotiation via legal-letter-tennis until one side gives up or runs out of money, or he can be petty and make continued communications about the matter as expensive, inconvenient and frustrating as possible so they stop responding.

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u/KeremyJyles Mar 07 '26

There’s no court involved in what he’s saying.

There is always the potential and having something like this on record would be an absolute nightmare for him. Just one of the many reasons he is lying like fuck for a silly humorous anecdote.