Mike Masnick ✅Super excited to be able to publish @kathryntewson's first Techdirt guest post... You do not want to miss this one.
"The World’s First Robot Lawyer Isn’t A Lawyer, And I’m Not Sure It’s Even A Robot"
Jacob Schumer@mmasnick @kathryntewson Did this guy just trick a bunch of VCs into giving him money to run a worse, illegal Legalzoom
Andrew Leahey@mmasnick @jacobschumer @kathryntewson
Noted BlockFi investor DST Global? https://www.financierworldwide.com/blockfi-files-for-chapter-11-protection
@andrew @jacobschumer @kathryntewson and, well, there are lots of folks who have noted that Yuri Milner basically has been laundering questionable Russian money into Silicon Valley for years. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/05/world/yuri-milner-facebook-twitter-russia.html
@mmasnick @jacobschumer @kathryntewson
At one time he owned Mail.ru, which was *the* email host to choose if you were doing nefarious things (spam, software piracy, etc.) in the early 00s. They wouldn't shut down an email account for anything.
It seems there is a new grift.