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Comment by zedeus

9 hours ago

I was misled by an individual who claimed to be helping the Nitter project pro bono with a team of lawyers. He made up a timeline of events that sounded mostly believable.

I have not given legal advice to any Nitter operators, so I'm not sure what you're trying to say?

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parable  1 minute ago

Hi. I was briefly following the developments regarding legal representation and thought everything was going well. Is there anything more you could disclose as to how you were misled or what happened here? Thank you again for creating and maintaining Nitter, it's such a valuable tool and I've donated a few times over the years.

Levitz  9 hours ago

>I was misled by an individual who claimed to be helping the Nitter project pro bono with a team of lawyers. He made up a timeline of events that sounded mostly believable.

I want to believe this was a case of incompetency on their part rather than malice because wow, that's a horrible thing to do.

  • Topfi  8 hours ago

    Wouldn't be unprecedented. Megamind Musk got scammed out of $ 50.000,- USD by someone claiming to be a PI on then Twitter [0], despite having access to (as near as makes no difference) infinite investigatory resources. If someone claimed to be a pro bono legal team, a less affluent project threatened by letters from high class lawyers, could easily fall for that and I could easily see it be malicious. Maybe trolls, maybe investors wanting to help SpaceXAI or whatever it is called today, maybe someone wishing to convert into donations/crypto rug pull, etc. Could also be incompetence after all, but maliciousness isn't without priors.

    [0] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/10/report-musks-500...

    • kmeisthax  5 hours ago

      Hanlon might say never attribute to malice what can be explained by incompetence, but I've found more often than not that the two happen to come together.

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