Super excited to be able to publish @kathryntewson's first Techdirt guest post... You do not want to miss this one.
"The World’s First Robot Lawyer Isn’t A Lawyer, And I’m Not Sure It’s Even A Robot"
@mmasnick @kathryntewson Did this guy just trick a bunch of VCs into giving him money to run a worse, illegal Legalzoom
@andrew @jacobschumer @kathryntewson and, well, there are lots of folks who have noted that Yuri Milner basically has been laundering questionable Russian money into Silicon Valley for years. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/05/world/yuri-milner-facebook-twitter-russia.html
@mmasnick @jacobschumer @kathryntewson
At one time he owned Mail.ru, which was *the* email host to choose if you were doing nefarious things (spam, software piracy, etc.) in the early 00s. They wouldn't shut down an email account for anything.
It seems there is a new grift.
@mmasnick @jacobschumer @kathryntewson
Here's another rabbit hole to dive down, Balaji Srinivasan (former Coinbase CTO mentioned above) was linked to the Dark Enlightenment movement -- which is a fun group.
https://techcrunch.com/2013/11/22/geeks-for-monarchy/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Enlightenment
Seems like the sorts of folks that are super about democratizing access to the courts. 
