You may remember when I pointed out the story about the Honey Badgers at the Calgary Expo, who threatened to sue the convention for kicking them out once it was pointed out that they lied about their agenda upon entering and were according to some a disruptive force on the floor? Yeah, well, shortly afterwards, they set up a fundraiser to sue the Calgary Expo, and promptly raised $30K from gullible gators who actually believed this was a winnable case. To be honest, I’d thought we’d heard the last from this aberrant little outgrowth of the movement. I thought wrong.
Today, HBB started talking about how their money was being spent. One detail (from the AGG subreddit) was particularly amusing.
We retained the legal services of Harry Kopyto. He is a very controversial figure in the area of human rights and discrimination law and a disbarred lawyer. However he has received awards for his work defending human rights–specifically he has fought for the rights of dissenters and underdogs, marxists, gay people, racial minorities and now us.
Um, yeah. This guy wasn’t just disbarred, they won’t even grant him a paralegal license. Partially for overbilling his customers more hours than are actually physically in a day. So congrats, GamerGate footsoldiers! You flushed your Steam Summer Sale money down the toilet on a lawyer whose ability to actually interact with the Ontario Legal System is strictly limited.
You know, for being completely unethical.
Over on KiA they’re saying “[They] only hired him to do Law research!”
You’ve still just hired a disbarred lawyer who is blatantly unethical. As a representative of a group which claims it is only about ethics in their chosen industry.
As someone who actually does care about ethics – although in regards to medical ethics, rather than journalistic ethics – I don’t hire people who don’t. It looks a little hypocritical.
I can only wish that these people poured as much energy into political journalism and mainstream media ethics as they do for the entertainment industry.