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‘Your profit fuelled genocide’: Rohingya sue Facebook for £150bn

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Also discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29463573

And https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29462176

Haven't the courts recently ruled that this kind of lawsuit by foreigners against corporations is prohibited?

They're going to need to prove that Facebook actively took part from the US, and considering Nestle wasn't found to be actively taking part by sending inspectors to slave plantations this seems hard to prove.

The lawyer heading up the campaign has an interesting bio.

https://www.legal500.com/firms/3959-mccue-jury-partners/5974...

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Public and International affairs, public interest, human rights and counter terrorism; specialist state consultancy (incl: transitional justice; conflict/dispute resolution; peace processes; truth and reconciliation; mediation; aid, development and state building; humanitarian); litigation; political prisoners and UK prisoners abroad; defamation and reputation management; asset recovery.

Position Jason McCue is the Senior Partner of McCue Jury & Partners LLP (and former senior founding partner of H2O Law LLP), co-founder of Rigel International (a corporate/government consultancy and litigation support provider), co-founder of EBRO Global (a not for profit government, institutional and humanitarian advisory); and co-founder and general partner of Greenlit SA (and ESG third-party litigation funding platform focused on funding worthy environmental, human rights and governance litigation around the world).

Jason has had a career in law, international affairs (including conflict resolution, humanitarian, development, transitional justice (truth and reconciliation), asset recoveries, and state-building matters), counterterrorism, commercial diplomacy (including gateway, dispute resolution, and social reinvestment matters) and human rights across the globe.

He is internationally acknowledged as a leading expert within several legal sectors (litigation, human rights, counterterrorism, conflict resolution, transitional justice, international criminal law, reputation management, and victim class action litigation).

He was awarded Doctor of Laws LLD (honoris causa) for his work on counterterrorism, human rights, and conflict resolution around the globe.

He has acted as political, legal and foreign affairs adviser to numerous heads of state, governments, opposition groups, international bodies (UN and AU) and companies. Among other roles, he has acted as Presidential Envoy for Somaliland; as the appointed facilitator to the joint UN/AU Darfur Peace Process; as an adviser on transitional justice to the Transitional Government of Libya; as head of the Libya-UK Victims Reconciliation Group (supported by the U.K. FCO); as lead adviser to the Government of Somaliland on the development of the Berbera Port/Berbera Corridor; Advisor to leading stakeholders in the South Sudan peace process; Representative/delegate of several countries at the United Nations General Assembly; General Counsel to numerous campaigns including Omagh Bomb Campaign, Free Belarus, Libyan Semtex Victims, and Justice for Rohingya Minority; and as an adviser to numerous African, Asian, Middle East and EU Governments on human rights, asset recovery, counter-terrorism and anti-piracy.

Jason is well known for his pursuit of terrorists and rogue regimes through the civil and criminal courts (his work was originally dubbed “law-fare” by the media) and for the tracing and recovery of their assets. He pioneered the development of domestic and international law through civil class actions/private criminal prosecutions on behalf of victims of terrorism.

Jason is an active human rights and humanitarian campaigner and advisor/friend to numerous NGOs and foundations including Director/Founder of the GREAT Foundation; Former Goodwill Ambassador for Femmes Africa Solidarité (FAS); Former Head of Crisis Action’s Advisory Committee; Consultant to Beyond Borders; Former Advisor and friend to the Mo Ibrahim Foundation; Former member of Oxfam’s Communication’s Board; Architect of Mandate Darfur.

Career Trained Mishcon de Reya 1991-93; qualified UK in 1993; qualified/admission on the Roll of Solicitors for Ireland 1999; Senior Partner H2O Law LLP 1994 to 2011; Senior Partner at McCue Jury & Partners, 2011 to present. Humanitarian work: active humanitarian campaigner and advisor to numerous NGOs around the world. Positions held: Trustee and Co-founder of the Gender Rights and Equality Action Trust (GREAT), that is committed to furthering gender equality and human rights for women; consultant to Beyond Borders; former head of Crisis Actions’ advisory committee; former goodwill ambassador for Femmes Africa Solidarité (FAS).

Education Stockton Heath County High School; London University, Queen Mary’s College (1990 LLB (Hons)); The College of Law SFE, London (1991); Chester University (2011 LLD (Hon. C.)).

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All of those relatively small nations and INGOs make me think this man runs in similar circles as those used by the organizers of Cambridge Analytica. Which says nothing about his sincerity or ethics, just that he may represent the flip side of the same coin of hidden, transnational interpersonal networks. Those networks are largely neutral to motive, not unlike Facebook's basic algorithms. The hard part is distinguishing motive and then trying to block the bad groups without hindering the others.

Publicity stunt. Will settle for peanuts.

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