For once I had the benefit of getting to see this shitshow develop in real time.

Kathryn (Birb Mom to any fellow Threadnought travelers) was actually engaging with the guy pushing this from day one, raising these exact concerns and warning it was inviting court trouble, and the guy just blew her off

and was predictably overconfident about his project's ability to survive the attention of the FTC

Though none of us knew it would get this ridiculous:

Also: Buy this reporter a drink for slipping this little knife-between-the-ribs. He didn't have to, but he chose to, and that sort of initiative needs to be rewarded.

he's truly doing the lord's work

Oh that is a finely honed stab

"DoNotPay has not employed attorneys and has not retained attorneys, let alone attorneys with the relevant legal expertise, to test the quality and accuracy of the Service’s law-related features."

"...DoNotPay wants to, “replace the $200-billion-dollar legal industry with artificial intelligence.” Browder dropped out of college in 2018..."

but yes but that reporter a drink!

icelightning: I genuinely had to clap for it

it's so mundane but so perfectly calibrated to be just that one last thing that pushes you over the edge if it bothers you at all.