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“Proctorio is expanding their lawsuit against me and I urgently need your help.”

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Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26898651, which was posted earlier and has more background.

Edit: lots of people have helpfully pointed out that I screwed this one up by conflating different lawsuits. Sorry! It's too late to disentangle them but I've attempted to explain things here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26907466.

Umm, this is a different person and a different lawsuit... Please revert!!

Ah sorry - I missed that they are different lawsuits. From an HN moderation point of view this is a bit of a distinction without a difference, because "Proctorio lawsuit against student" is really one topic, not two. But I can see how it has made several comments confusing to mess up the contexts like that.

Perhaps the best thing will be to post the different links with an explanation at the top of the thread.

FWIW, one is a teacher and the other is a student.

I'm a little confused though - this post says it's from 10 hours ago, the other says it's from 8 hours ago. Why was the other one chosen?

edit - Thanks for all you do for HN.

When we re-up a post we adjust the timestamps relative to the re-up time. If you look at the item IDs in the URLs you can clearly see which post was earlier. Sorry, I know it's confusing! It's just that the other strategies we've tried have been even more confusing.

More explanation: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

This seems an odd migration, as they're largely unrelated, yes?

Hey dang, thanks for your hard work. This post is about the troubles of a gentleman called Ian Linkletter being sued by Proctorio. The other thread is about a student called Erik Johnson who is also being sued by Proctorio (but supported by the EFF). I also don't think the two cases are related. Is it right to move the comments from this post to the other?

Edit: note that the EFF article about Erij Johnson on the other post links to an EFF article about Ian Linkletter that does have more detail on Linkletter's case.

Thanks! Unfortunately that latter article you mention is from February so we can't make it the top level link. Will figure something out.

As pointed elsewhere here already, this is NOT the case of Erij Johnson, the student, who is being supported by the EFF.

This is the case of Ian Linkletter, a TEACHER, who is being SLAPPed by Proctorio to silence them.

In the linked twitter thread, he states he's being harassed by Proctorio with legal shenanigans for over 200 days now, with bills now mounting above $100k. There is also a gofundme campaign https://ca.gofundme.com/f/stand-against-proctorio to help.

I for one will gladly donate.

PS. Dear dang, please reconsider the re-direction.I know HN is not a 'visibility engine' for flagging funding campaigns, but it's not about 'generalised topics' either. As a nerd who cares about both the sorry state of AI Ethics and Fairness in education, this news item interests me specifically, and I'm glad I spotted the funding campaign on this page.

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