Dissident Patriot (@Disspat)

TL;DR: Guy consigns Lego collection at Bricks & Minifigs. Franchisee sells the store, and the new owner says he has no agreement with the consignee, keeps the Lego sets, AND proceeds. Bricks & Minifigs corporate blows the consignee off... until a popular YouTuber called them out and things got ugly. This is a long read, but it's well worth it. It's not just a cautionary tale of a guy consigning a large Lego collection who got screwed, but about how easily corporations can leverage police and the courts to violate the constitutional rights of Americans. "On May 28, a Utah judge ordered that videos related to the underlying dispute and allegedly defamatory or unlawful content be taken down." Constitutionally speaking, content can't be ordered taken down until it has been determined to be defamatory (or unlawful). "That raises an obvious constitutional problem. Courts can punish defamation after a proper process. They can restrain threats and harassment. They can enforce trespass laws. But when a court orders videos removed before a final judgment, and when the surrounding legal process appears unclear to the public watching online, ordinary Americans have reason to ask whether the case has drifted into something darker." And yet that is what happened here. They had the YouTuber arrested twice because he continued to investigate and talk about the case, leading to him fleeing to Mexico so that he could continue to engage in free speech... think about that for a minute. #SpeakFreely https://www.theblaze.com/columns/opinion/how-a-lego-dispute-became-a-first-amendment-fight