Douglass Mackey (aka "Ricky Vaughn") indicted, CONVICTED for political memes

[enhanced_deficit]

On a side note, thought that image looked familiar:

Twitter avatar used by “Ricky Vaughn”

[jmdrake]

So now that Biden has taken up Trump's cause to repeal section 230 what will this mean? Will forum owners be possibly be criminally liable if they don't take down illegal memes? (Answer is yes).

[Warrior_of_Freedom]

I hope they pass laws to put people who spread disinformation in jail, this way we can get rid of all the people on top spreading disinformation every day! Imprisonment by their own laws.

[acptulsa]

I hope they pass laws to put people who spread disinformation in jail, this way we can get rid of all the people on top spreading disinformation every day! Imprisonment by their own laws.

Uh huh. And what prosecutor is going to say that the truth is a valid defense against a charge if spreading disinformation?

The tyrannical class invented the word disinformation, and they're reserving to themselves the right to say what it means.

[Occam's Banana]

Jury in Douglass Mackey trial tells judge they cannot come to a unanimous decision
"We have completed our deliberations and we have not reached a unanimous decision. Please advise."
https://thepostmillennial.com/jury-i...imous-decision
The Post Millennial (28 March 2023)

After the first full day of deliberations in the meme trial of Douglass Mackey, the jury sent a note saying that they had completed their deliberations and were unable to reach a unanimous decision as to his guilt.

"After the first full day of deliberations in the Douglass Mackey trial, the jury sent this note: 'We have completed our deliberations and we have not reached a unanimous decision. Please advise.' The judge sent them home for the night, told them to keep going in the morning," the Daily News' Brooklyn Court reporter John Annese reported.

"Brooklyn Federal Court Judge Ann Donnelly told the Mackey jurors, 'This is actually not unusual. By our terms you've only been deliberating for a little while.' She told them to take their time," Annese continued.

Mackey, who was charged with election interference, has been on trial in the Eastern District of New York on federal charges. His alleged crime was making a meme in the lead up to the 2016 presidential election encouraging those who wished to vote for Hillary Clinton to do so via text.

The Department of Justice alleged that this constituted election interference, even though they were unable to provide evidence that anyone on Twitter was fooled by Mackey's meme.

The defendant said that he wasn't committing "election intereference" and was merely trying to make a viral meme. This he did. Hillary Clinton supporters posted similar memes suggesting that Trump supporters vote by text. These people were not arrested or charged by the DOJ.

Mackey, who went by Ricky Vaughn on Twitter, was arrested in January 2021 on the charge of "conspiring with others in advance of the 2016 US Presidential Election to use various social media platforms to disseminate misinformation designed to deprive individuals of their constitutional right to vote," the DOJ said.

Early on in the trial, an expert witness for the defense withdrew from the trial after a reporter from the SPLC contacted him and asked, among other things, if his employer knew that he was testifying on Mackey's behalf.

[Voluntarist]

[jmdrake]

A) Did anybody actually fall for this tweet and try to vote for Hillary by text?

Mackey, who was charged with election interference, has been on trial in the Eastern District of New York on federal charges. His alleged crime was making a meme in the lead up to the 2016 presidential election encouraging those who wished to vote for Hillary Clinton to do so via text.

The Department of Justice alleged that this constituted election interference, even though they were unable to provide evidence that anyone on Twitter was fooled by Mackey's meme.

But people actually were fooled into believing the Hunter Biden laptop story was a hoax when it was actually true.

[Brian4Liberty]

Jury in Douglass Mackey trial tells judge they cannot come to a unanimous decision
"We have completed our deliberations and we have not reached a unanimous decision. Please advise."
https://thepostmillennial.com/jury-i...imous-decision
The Post Millennial (28 March 2023)

After the first full day of deliberations in the meme trial of Douglass Mackey, the jury sent a note saying that they had completed their deliberations and were unable to reach a unanimous decision as to his guilt.

"After the first full day of deliberations in the Douglass Mackey trial, the jury sent this note: 'We have completed our deliberations and we have not reached a unanimous decision. Please advise.' The judge sent them home for the night, told them to keep going in the morning," the Daily News' Brooklyn Court reporter John Annese reported.

"Brooklyn Federal Court Judge Ann Donnelly told the Mackey jurors, 'This is actually not unusual. By our terms you've only been deliberating for a little while.' She told them to take their time," Annese continued.

Mackey, who was charged with election interference, has been on trial in the Eastern District of New York on federal charges. His alleged crime was making a meme in the lead up to the 2016 presidential election encouraging those who wished to vote for Hillary Clinton to do so via text.

The Department of Justice alleged that this constituted election interference, even though they were unable to provide evidence that anyone on Twitter was fooled by Mackey's meme.

The defendant said that he wasn't committing "election intereference" and was merely trying to make a viral meme. This he did. Hillary Clinton supporters posted similar memes suggesting that Trump supporters vote by text. These people were not arrested or charged by the DOJ.

Mackey, who went by Ricky Vaughn on Twitter, was arrested in January 2021 on the charge of "conspiring with others in advance of the 2016 US Presidential Election to use various social media platforms to disseminate misinformation designed to deprive individuals of their constitutional right to vote," the DOJ said.

Early on in the trial, an expert witness for the defense withdrew from the trial after a reporter from the SPLC contacted him and asked, among other things, if his employer knew that he was testifying on Mackey's behalf.

They did now. They found him guilty.

https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/sta...05357088776193

[Anti Federalist]

First Amendment?

Never heard of it...

[Origanalist]

Dark times we're living in.

[spudea]

10 years prison for a meme and the prosecution didn't show a single person that was harmed. He lived in Florida but trial and jury in NY. Total bull$#@!.

[Origanalist]

[AngryCanadian]

Are you serious?


Douglass Mackey Found Guilty of Violating Rights With 2016 Memes? for simply telling Hillary Fans to vote?
Because of a meme?

Douglass Mackey Found Guilty of Violating Rights With 2016 Memes

What is worse about this.
Is that this person is likely facing decade of prison?



While actual criminals in New York City and other cities are being set free!
And are regaining the system if they are rearrested.

[CaptUSA]

Face it. This country has been taken over. And he upset the ruling class.

[RonWrightor]

Face it. This country has been taken over. And he upset the ruling class.

Wont be much left to rule over soon. Won't be much left to revel in.

[Anti Globalist]

Face it. This country has been taken over. And he upset the ruling class.

I was under the impression that this country was taken over decades ago.

[Origanalist]

[AngryCanadian]

Didn't know there was a thread on this.

[Anti Federalist]

So, here's where we are at in AmeriKa.

You make a meme to "troll" people into voting by text for Hillary and you go to jail.

You make a meme to "troll" people into voting by text for Trump and you run for office.

https://twitter.com/amuse/status/1641923569687965698

[Occam's Banana]

CLIP from SYSTEM UPDATE #64:

SHOCKING: Anti-Hillary Influencer Found Guilty of Election Interference, with Darren Beattie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ca7oaRkqNAw

[osan]

That boy should be hunted when he gets out. Better yet, leave him to genpop in jail. They will take care of business.

[osan]

And there she goes... America, down by the bow...

[Occam's Banana]

"The corporate press is the enemy of the people." -- Michael Malice

https://twitter.com/MiamiHerald/stat...48875160760330

[Occam's Banana]

RELATED: DOJ Indicts Four Americans for “Weaponized” Free Speech

[AngryCanadian]

That boy should be hunted when he gets out. Better yet, leave him to genpop in jail. They will take care of business.

Isn't it ironic? Criminals like him get a lighter sentence than those who get punished for something far less.

Justice is broken..

[acptulsa]

Justice is broken..

The Just Us System is alive and well.

https://twitter.com/catturd2/status/1650090356703215617

[Occam's Banana]

https://twitter.com/martyrmade/statu...54350260244706


https://twitter.com/martyrmade/statu...58523962593634

[Anti Federalist]

Off to the gulag with you.

Twitter user Douglass Mackey sentenced to 7 months in prison after being found guilty of election interference for making memes disparaging Hillary Clinton

https://thepostmillennial.com/breaki...illary-clinton

18 Oct 2023

Meme-maker Douglass Mackey was sentenced in New York criminal court on Wednesday after a March conviction for conspiracy against rights, ie election interference, over memes he created during the 2016 presidential election that disparaged Hillary Clinton.

Mackey was sentenced to 7 months in prison for the crime of making memes the DOJ didn't think were funny. A fundraiser has been launched for his ongoing legal defense.

The case was heard in the US Court of the Eastern District of New York. Mackey, who was known as Ricky Vaughn on Twitter, was found guilty of the federal charge after making memes that jokingly encouraged Hillary Clinton supporters to cast their votes via text mesage. This is not actually a viable form of voting, which Mackey, and everyone else, knew. There was no evidence to suggest that any voter attempted to cast their ballot via text in response to Mackey's meme.

"Tomorrow at 1130am," said one supporter, "Doug Mackey will be sentenced in an NYC courtroom on a sham “conspiracy” conviction for sharing an anti-Hillary meme, all thanks to a bunch of lies and half-truths spewed by a morbidly obese fed informant who goes by the name Microchip."

[GlennwaldSnowdenAssanged]

Didn't Obama enogucarge illegals to go vote? Try to find a video of him saying that today. Wiped.

[Anti Federalist]

https://twitter.com/ColumbiaBugle/st...78801959596358