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The lawsuits designed to bankrupt critics

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The legal system is highly efficient if your only goal is to financially crush someone with paperwork. Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation are massive, baseless defamation claims filed by massive corporations against journalists or activists. The explicit economic goal isn't to win the case, but to drain the defendant's bank account via endless legal defense fees.

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