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by WarmWash 100 days ago
We would need to see the actual chat logs.

Any lawsuit you read, written by the plaintiff's attorneys, will be written with a tabloid level of sensationalism, cherry-picking, and "telling you how to feel". This is requested to be a jury trial, so on some level the game is "would you rather settle out of court (where hundreds of thousands are grains of sand on Google's level), or have a jury read our tabloid and decide while you, the faceless megacorporation, try to swim uphill against it."
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dash2 100 days ago
But the WSJ did see the logs, right? So did they lower their standards to tabloid levels? Seems unlikely to me.
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WarmWash 99 days ago
No, they are quoting the allegations made in the lawsuit.
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LoganDark 100 days ago
To an extent, logs like this are incredibly personal - or at least I'd consider them such - so I'd understand if they're not being released publicly for many reasons relating to that.

The kind of vulnerability that shows when someone is susceptible to influences like this isn't exactly the kind of thing you'd want to widely publicize about someone you loved, you know?

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WarmWash 100 days ago
Google will not release the chat logs publically, it's up to the court how to handle them, but the bar for "the public cannot see this" is generally much higher than "well that's embarrassing". If this goes to trial, they will most likely become available.

Remember that the idea of the court is to be public and transparent, with judgement coming from the jury, but also to be judged by society on the whole. So if you're gonna sue your kink provider, be prepared for everyone to know how you get off, because after all, the court is owned by, and serves, the public.

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