[FONT=lucida_granderegular]This is a very scary situation and hopefully the courts will set a precedent. Someone could hire this company to basically protest/harass an enemy. If this is legal, what recourse would one have?
I guess you could always counter-hire the company to counter-harass the guy who sicced them on you in the first place.. BTW, I have never visited this website and know nothing about it. It could be a parody news site for all I know, so TIFWIW, I just thought it was interesting....
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-10-22/paid-protest-firm-crowds-demand-sued-23-million-extortion-plot
Paid Protest Firm "Crowds On Demand" Sued In $23 Million Extortion Plot[/h]
"Paid protesters are real," writes the Los Angeles Times, after a lawsuit filed by a Czech investor against a business rival spotlighted the seedy, and very real business of people hired to express fake outrage, support, and everything in between.
According to a lawsuit filed by investor Zdenek Bakala, Prague-based investment manager Pavol Krupa hired Beverly hills company Crowds on Demand (COD) to stage a protest near Bakala's home in Hilton Head, SC.
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I guess you could always counter-hire the company to counter-harass the guy who sicced them on you in the first place.. BTW, I have never visited this website and know nothing about it. It could be a parody news site for all I know, so TIFWIW, I just thought it was interesting....
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-10-22/paid-protest-firm-crowds-demand-sued-23-million-extortion-plot
Paid Protest Firm "Crowds On Demand" Sued In $23 Million Extortion Plot[/h]
"Paid protesters are real," writes the Los Angeles Times, after a lawsuit filed by a Czech investor against a business rival spotlighted the seedy, and very real business of people hired to express fake outrage, support, and everything in between.
According to a lawsuit filed by investor Zdenek Bakala, Prague-based investment manager Pavol Krupa hired Beverly hills company Crowds on Demand (COD) to stage a protest near Bakala's home in Hilton Head, SC.
In the Bakala case, Crowds on Demand is accused of spreading misinformation through a website, putting on protests and organizing a phone and email campaign targeting several U.S. institutions with ties to Bakala, who got an MBA from Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business and had an estimated net worth topping $1 billion earlier this decade, according to Forbes. -LA Times
Crowds on Demand provides pop-up "protests, rallies, flash mobs, paparazzi events and other inventive PR stunts," according to its website.
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