Defamation Lawsuit vs Bot Sentinel

My name is Nate the Lawyer and I am a Lawtuber and Independent journalist working to expose corruption and teach people about their rights.

Short Version

I have been targeted by a known scam artist Christopher Bouzy of Bot Sentinel.

Mr. Bouzy has claimed falsely that:

1. I am not a Lawyer,

2. I committed felonies like fraud and planting evidence,

3. I lied about all of my education,

4. I lied about my credentials,

5. I defrauded my youtube fans.

and More.

These were obvious lies and Mr. Bouzy claimed he said these things AND KNEW they were false and said them anyway challenging me to sue him.

We did.

Bouzy does this to many people and we intend to stop his campaign of harassment. Join us on our battle.

Long Version:

I am every bit the man I claim to be, a guy who came up from the streets of Harlem to become an attorney. I tell it like it is. My livelihood, therefore, depends on my reputation.

Christopher Bouzy, on the other hand, has no reputation to protect and little to lose by defaming a man who does. Bouzy is a social media personality best known for a series of dubious online adventures—from crypto scams to phony software pitches—and, most recently, a program called Bot Sentinel that holds itself out as the definitive gatekeeper of appropriate Internet discourse. Bot Sentinel ranks Twitter users and provides subscribers with tools for blocking the “toxic” ones, based on what Bouzy describes as a leading-edge “machine-learning”–based algorithm that identifies Twitter “trolls,” i.e., accounts that operate mainly to harass, ridicule and, frequently defame other users.

There is ample proof that Bot Sentinel’s social credit scores are the products, not of the rigorous algorithm Bouzy claims for them, but of views and people Christopher Bouzy does and does not like. And as a vocal skeptic of Bot Sentinel, and perhaps also a reminder of everything Bouzy is not in terms of character, hard work, and personal achievement.

Bouzy does not like me, a former policeman, prosecutor, and criminal defense lawyer who makes the majority of his living as a YouTube streamer under the name “Nate the Lawyer.”

Bouzy thus thrust aside Bot Sentinel’s flimsy curtain and, in a turn whose irony was lost on no one but himself, proceeded to give the Internet a free master class on nasty, personal and racially-infused Internet trolling aimed at me.

From accusations of race treason—despite the fact that we are both African Americans with a liberal political bent—to the cruel mockery of my disability and humble origins as the child of a drug addict, and finally through a series of false and defamatory attacks on me.

Admitting that his campaign against me was intended to destroy my reputation, credibility and career, Bouzy started with what must have seemed the definitive coup de main. Bouzy announced on Twitter that his own intrepid research had uncovered the fact that the famous YouTuber “Nate the Lawyer,” whose livelihood depends on his identity as a lawyer, was not a lawyer at all. Twitter users quickly demonstrated, however, that only a bit of competent investigation was needed to establish that Nate the Lawyer is in fact a member in good standing of the New York bar.

Instead of admitting to negligence or incompetence, however, Bouzy publicly crowed that, of course, he knew all along that Nate the Lawyer was a lawyer. Bouzy, however, said that he had purposely lied when he claimed otherwise. This, he explained, was a deep stratagem of Internet polemic; those who know, he assured his followers, would understand it.

Emboldened by his ability to seemingly “get away” with saying whatever he thought would harm Nate the Lawyer, Bouzy then published a series of even more “damning,” but actually false and defamatory tweets. Bouzy took to Twitter and made the scandalous and fantastic claim that Nate the Lawyer had, during his career as a cop, planted and falsified evidence on criminal drug suspects. Bouzy knew that promulgating this lie would render Nate the Lawyer unreliable as a source of criminal law and social commentary on YouTube.

It was a lie, however, and Nate the Lawyer immediately demanded its retraction. But Bouzy has never been held accountable in his decades of lying on the Internet and was not about to start now.

He did not merely refuse to retract these false claims; he dared Nate the Lawyer to sue him for defamation. Nate the Lawyer had little choice but to do so.

Now we have an opportunity to stop him from continuing these defamatory attacks on others.

Thank you for all your help.

All funds will be used for the lawsuit BROUGHTY v. BOUZY (2:22-cv-06458). Upon completion of the lawsuit, any and all unused funds will be donated to the Texas Children's Hospital.

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