From a press release:
... United States Magistrate Judge Embry J. Kidd has found Joshua Joseph Gray (45, New Smyrna Beach) and George Douglas Metz (51, Belleview) guilty of unlawfully video recording and failing to comply with official signs and directives inside multiple Social Security field offices. ...
According to evidence presented at trial, on various dates between November 2022 and January 2023, Gray and Metz each entered three different Social Security field offices in Central Florida while video recording. Gray and Metz continued to video record despite being informed by official signage and Social Security representatives that video recording is prohibited in Social Security offices without prior permission. ... Gray and Metz subsequently posted their video recordings, which depicted members of the public and Social Security representatives conducting business, on their public YouTube channels, where Gray and Metz were paid for their videos and solicited donations. ...
3 comments:
Pretty straight forward. They're creating content that appeals to a specific audience, and that audience pays them to make it. It's OnlyFans for people who think they're smart and hate the government.
There's also an entire industry set up around taking money from those people. Selling documents that make you immune to laws, courses on how to not pay taxes, what crazy stickers to put on your car so traffic laws don't apply to you, etc.
It's saint's knuckles in the marketplace. Scammers and the fools who support them, tale as old as time.
YouTube ad revenue. Plus I am betting they are hoping they could make some money off of a lawsuit if they end up violated in some way.
Perhaps they were fishing for a Project Veritas (look it up) moment.
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