MyPillow CEO Is Trying To Launch a Social Media Site, and It's Already Resulted in a Legal Threat

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

MyPillow founder and staunch Trump ally Mike Lindell plans to launch a social network of his own in the next few weeks, creating a haven for the kind of pro-Trump conspiracy theories that have been banned on more prominent social-media sites. On Lindell’s “Vocl” social media platform, users will be free to claim that a supercomputer stole the election from Donald Trump, or that vaccines are a tool of the devil.

Any new social media network faces serious challenges. But Vocl must grapple with a daunting problem before it even launches: a website called “Vocal,” spelled with an “A,” already exists.

On Thursday, lawyers for Vocal’s publicly traded parent company, Creatd, Inc., warned Lindell, in a letter reviewed by The Daily Beast, to change his social media network’s name and surrender ownership of the Vocl.com domain name. If Lindell refuses to change the name, he could face a lawsuit.

While Lindell has promised to turn Vocl into a “cross between Twitter and YouTube,” Vocal is a publishing platform similar to Medium where writers can post and monetize articles.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/mypillow-ceo-mike-lindell-is-trying-to-launch-a-social-media-site-and-it-s-already-resulted-in-a-legal-threat/ar-BB1ewHRQ

[Initech]

1. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

[Goodheart]

2. Will I be allowed to say on Vocl that Lindell worships false gods?

Including himself?

[brooklynite]

3. Gotta side with Lindell on this one...

"Vocal" is English. "Voci" is Italian. I don't think you can argue that there's a comflict.

[revmclaren]

6. I think it's a small 'L' at the end, not an i.

Thats why he's being threatened with a law suit.

[Cirque du So-What]

7. It's 'Vocl.' V-O-C-L. Not Voci.

Pretty sure it's pronounced just like 'vocal.'

[tanyev]

13. Yes, think Vocl Yokls.

[torius]

4. How about "Pillw" nt

[TreasonousBastard]

5. "Voci" is already the name of other groups, some of which may be trademarked-- howcum...

his lawyers didn't mention that?

Anyway, the Latin voci is the first-person singular present subjunctive of vociare, which means "to shout".

[Cirque du So-What]

8. It's 'Vocl.' V-O-C-L. Not Voci.

Pretty sure it's pronounced just like 'vocal.'

[TreasonousBastard]

11. OK. Never mind.

[Cirque du So-What]

12. It's easy to make that mistake

There's not much of a gap between the stick and the dot on a lower-case 'i' - especially on a small screen.

[OhZone]

9. How about Hitlr

I bet you did Nazi that coming!

Ha

[Vinca]

10. In the end his site his going to be known as "Dominion" anyway. LOL.

[ProfessorGAC]

14. Who's Really Funding It?

Lindell is not as wealthy as is advertised. (Sound familiar?)
His company has $152 million with EBIT (earnings before interest and taxes) of around 12.2% Roughly $18.5 million.
Floating around $128 million in debt there's likely around a 5&1/4th million dollar interest bill, plus principal payback.
Now add taxes there's MAYBE $10 million.
The company is only around 12 years old, and hasn't had these type of returns the whole time. And, volume growth required investment.
He claims (through a self edit of his Wikipedia page) to be worth $300 million. There hasn't been enough time to go from crack head to $300 million.
So, who is really footing the bill for this start-up.

[niyad]

15. Putin?

[ProfessorGAC]

16. Decent Surmise

Or the Mercers? Somebody with big bucks & bad intentions.

[niyad]

17. Exactly.