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Lol. Good luck finding a lawyer to that that case. I'm with the mods but I assume this a joke that got out of hand.
I assume they're realistic enough to know that this really won't go anywhere and that the whole point of the discussion is simply to make some noise.
There's also something to be said about using the system to fight the system. We're taught civil rights were won through peaceful protest and getting attention, but we don't live in that fairy tale world
Those people who had sit ins didn't do it for attention, they did it because once they were in the system for breaking a law, they could challenge the law. They didn't do it once or twice, they tied up the court systems
The black Panthers also played a significant role, but the only analog here is anonymous, and the panthers were more of a deterrent to using police to do punitive raids
The US government didn't want to end segregation and it wasn't like the public at large liked the idea, they used the third path - you use just position yourself so either they're forced to stop brushing you off and in doing so give you legitimacy through escalation or negotiation, or they just give in and you achieve your goal
It has legal precident. There was a class action lawsuit, with payout, when AOL changed the chatrooms for moneys and the chatrooms mods were able to organize and argue for all their past unpaid work. Unpaid workers or volunteers only work as free labor when the business isn't selling something. When money is involved there are different rules with dept of labor and everything. I don't know the specific details, but yeah a class action lawsuit of this type has happened before with a payout. I'm sure they can find plenty of lawyers that want a class action payout.