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This is a case that goes back to 2016. I have a vague recollection of it, but haven\u2019t followed it at all. It involves to YouTube \u201cStars\u201d who are polar opposites politically and how one of them attempted to shut down the other by abusing the DMCA. The case has been decided and the Socialist Justice Warrior, who initiated the action, has lost big time. Here are the details from Reclaim the Net<\/b><\/a>:<\/p>\n The multi-year saga involving a social media feud that turned into a legal battle between YouTubers Carl Benjamin and Akilah Hughes seems to be drawing to a close. <\/b><\/p>\n Started shortly after the 2016 US presidential election, the case developed from Hughes suing Benjamin for using parts of her video made during Hillary Clinton\u2019s election defeat night, to poke fun at Hughes\u2019 pro-Clinton stance<\/a> and her lack of self-awareness. <\/b><\/p>\n Poking fun and barking moonbats is really not that great a challenge primarily due to the enormous amount of material available. Now I haven\u2019t seen the video in question, and I don\u2019t subscribe to the Sargon of Akkad YouTube channel, but when I saw this story I did look up Sargon. He posted a video explaining the judgment against Hughes. I\u2019m sure he won\u2019t mind if I post his video.<\/p>\n https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TO9gDpC6k0I<\/p>\n Apparently, when Hughes saw the video, she reacted in the typical way all SJW\u2019s do. She went on the warpath. She sued him for copyright infringement, tried to get him deplatformed and basically set out to destroy him. However, the way she want about it was a legal textbook case in how NOT to present yourself to the courts when trying to win. The judge in this case, Richard J. Sullivan, blasted Hughes.<\/p>\n The circuit Judge had a clear understanding that Hughes was misusing copyright law as a form of retaliation: <\/b><\/p>\n \u201cThroughout the course of this litigation, Hughes prominently referenced Benjamin and the ongoing suit on Twitter. For instance, on December 8, 2016, Hughes tweeted that she had \u201ca [C]hristmas present on the way\u201d for Benjamin, referring to the lawsuit. (Doc. No. 43 at 5.) <\/b><\/p>\n On October 28, 2018, Hughes tweeted that she was \u201ccurrently suing [Benjamin\u2019s] white supremacist ass for stealing [her] content.\u201d (Id. at 6.) Two months later, Hughes referred to Benjamin in a tweet as a \u201ccarnival barker\u201d and expressed a desire to convince the crowdfunding platform GoFundMe to terminate Benjamin\u2019s campaign to fund his legal costs for this action and to \u201cbankrupt\u201d Benjamin with a libel suit. (Id. at 2.) And on February 12, 2019, Hughes replied to a tweet predicting that she would lose her copyright lawsuit by declaring that she was \u201cgonna take hundreds of thousands of dollars USD\u201d from Benjamin.\u201d <\/b><\/p>\n This makes me wonder, what the Hell were Hughes\u2019s lawyers doing? They should have told her to shut up. Instead, she contracted a serious case of Dysentery of the Mouth and keyboard, and basically blew her own case, problematical as it was, right out of the water.<\/p>\n Hughes\u2019 accusation against Benjamin\u2019s video \u2013 \u201cSJW Levels of Awareness\u201d \u2013 that sparked nearly four years of litigation was found to be a false DMCA claim, possibly motivated by political and ideological animosity, given her liberal and Benjamin\u2019s more classical liberal persuasions, rather than any real concern about copyright infringement. <\/b><\/p>\n These days, being a \u201cClassical Liberal\u201d is considered being a populist Constitutional Conservative. In the eyes of the Modern Progressive Liberals, that\u2019s the same as being a Nazi.<\/p>\n \u201cIt was therefore unmistakable that the edited video was designed to highlight and critique Hughes\u2019s alleged lack of self-awareness, not to pass off her work as Benjamin\u2019s,\u201d the ruling opinion reads.<\/strong><\/p>\n Usually, people can tell fairly easily if someone is passing off a work done by others as their own. Just look at Vice President Slow Joe Biden. Plagiarism is his stock in trade and has been his entire adult life.<\/p>\n In a letter to the judge prior to the ruling in favor of his client, Mullen said that Hughes was essentially abusing the case to gain publicity<\/a> as an internet personality.<\/b><\/p>\n Well, she definitely gained publicity, just not the kind she was looking for. The article then goes on to show some tweets. That Hughes posted. Again, I have to ask what the hell were her lawyers doing? Didn\u2019t they even try to explain the Rule of Holes? You know, when you find yourself in one, STOP DIGGING!<\/p>\n Hughes has denied that she was abusing the legal system with false claims, or using the legal process to promote herself online, and also opposed Benjamin\u2019s claim to reclaim his legal fees. Today Hughes directed criticism of the ruling at the judge<\/a>.<\/b><\/p>\n The tweet shows the background of Judge Sullivan. As an FYI, he has no connection to Emmett Sullivan, currently looking to be smashed upside the head, virtually speaking, by either the D.C. Circuit Court or the United States Supreme Court. He was originally appointed to the Bench by George W. Bush and was recently promoted by President Trump.<\/p>\n As for Hughes, Mr. Benjamin is not expecting to get his judgment from Hughes. He doesn\u2019t think she has the money, and of course, she has to pay her lawyers as well. She could appeal, however, since Judge Sullivan has been promoted, she would be appealing to him to overturn his own decision. I doubt that\u2019s going to happen, and still won\u2019t even if he recused himself. His ruling was very explicit.<\/p>\n Hopefully this will be a lesson to those on the left. The people you have been attacking are fighting back and they are winning. Just ask Oberlin College. They lost a case so badly, they may be force to close down. Somehow I doubt that those on the left are capable of learning anything. As for Akilah Hughes? It is going to really suck to be you.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n