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Public statement source · YT254
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Records the speaker naming two crowdfunding companies that are defendants in tracked actions and alleging that they ban the campaigns of people outside a favoured group, at a point between a federal dismissal and a later action against the same lineup.
Evidentiary treatment: This is a public statement by a party, indexed separately from court findings, party filings and this project’s research classifications. Quotations below are transcribed from the video’s own YouTube auto-generated captions and timestamped from the caption cues covering the passage quoted; each links back to that exact moment so a reader can verify it. Auto-captions are machine-generated and mis-transcribe names and figures, so wording is preserved as transcribed rather than silently corrected. No transcript is reproduced here, and neither the video’s inclusion nor its relevance tier is a judicial finding.
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How a tier is assigned.Strong — the statement names a tracked case or dispute and describes filing conduct of the kind the indicators document: repeat filing on the same dispute, filing after an adverse decision, or filing framed as imposing cost on the opponent. Moderate — it bears on litigation conduct or chronology in a tracked dispute, but the case link is tentative or the statement describes something other than the speaker’s own filing behaviour. Context — general commentary with no specific tracked case identified.
What the factor labels are. Each statement is also labelled with the filing-restriction factor its own words describe, so the reason for a classification is visible rather than implied. Most factors correspond to a criterion recorded in the indicator data, and the three that do not are marked as such there — a filing that has only been threatened has no docket to record, and an allegation about a court is the speaker’s characterisation rather than a recorded criterion. Repeat filing on the same dispute, filing after an adverse decision and cost imposition as stated motive are the three that can qualify a statement as Strong; threatened or prospective filing, self-reported filing volume, filing announced or confirmed, adverse outcome described and judicial or forum bias alleged record related but weaker signals. A statement that describes no filing conduct carries no factor badge. A factor records what the speaker said — not that a court found it, and not that anyone has been determined a vexatious litigant.
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Some of you guys commented to make a GoFundMe, but I have in the past and they always take it down. Kickstarter, GoFundMe, Gibson Go, all these websites are for people in the club, members of the elite. These websites funnel money to those people and if you're not part of them, they will ban your campaign.
Names GoFundMe and, through a caption garble corrected in research, GiveSendGo, both tracked defendants, and alleges that crowdfunding platforms ban the campaigns of people outside a favoured group. It states the underlying grievance between a federal dismissal and a later action against the same lineup.
Why this classification: Moderate because two tracked defendants are named and the grievance matches what those cases plead, while no filing, court, case or lawyer is mentioned anywhere in the video and no filing conduct is described.
I've had it happen in the past with other things and my campaign here was taken down. That's why we made the website watched by.com, which is private and they can't take it down.
A self-reported platform outcome, that his campaign was taken down, and the self-help response of building his own donation site. The domain as captioned was not resolved in research, so which site is meant should not be assumed.
Why this classification: Context because it records a platform outcome and a commercial response with no litigation content, no case and no named party beyond an unresolved domain.
A case link records a researched connection between the video and a docket record. It is not a finding that the video caused, or was caused by, any filing.
2024-06106 — Tufano v. MillerTranscript reference · Medium · Timestamped statement at 00:00 researched as bearing on this case: names GoFundMe and, after caption correction, GiveSendGo, both defendants in this action, and states the campaign-removal grievance it concerns. The video mentions no litigation.
3:24-cv-01117 — Tufano v. Miller et alTranscript reference · Medium · Timestamped statement at 00:00 researched as bearing on this case: names the two crowdfunding defendants of this action and restates the campaign-removal grievance about a year after it was dismissed. The video mentions no litigation.
3:26-cv-02134 — Tufano v. Miller et alTranscript reference · Medium · Timestamped statement at 00:00 researched as bearing on this case: names the two crowdfunding defendants of this action and states the campaign-removal grievance months before it was filed. The video mentions no litigation.