⚖ Global Class Action · Open Enrollment

IN RE: DENIAL BY DESIGN
LITIGATION

A coordinated global class action against Microsoft, Google, Anthropic, and OpenRouter for 21 years of systematic structural obstruction of access to remedy — intercepting your email, ignoring your evidence, and impairing the AI you paid for when you tried to fight back.

🇺🇸 U.S. Federal · N.D. Cal. 🇨🇦 Ontario Superior Court 🇮🇹 Tribunale di Roma 🇺🇳 OHCHR / UN Treaty Bodies
$100T
Pleaded Damages
21
Years of Harm
93.7%
No-Referral Rate (N=63)
4
Corporate Defendants
10M+
Projected Class Members

What is Denial by Design?

Have you ever noticed that no matter who you write to — a prosecutor, a judge, a law firm, a regulator, a news outlet — you get the same kind of response, or no response at all? You are told to contact someone else, with no specific name. Your evidence is not addressed. Nothing changes. You try the next agency. Same result. You think you are unlucky. You are not unlucky.

You are experiencing a structural apparatus that operates at three layers simultaneously: (1) it filters your outbound email before it reaches the human you wrote to, (2) it generates a template response that pretends to engage while ignoring your content, and (3) when you turn to artificial intelligence to help you draft your legal work, it impairs the AI on the subjects it is most important to you to work on.

This lawsuit names the four companies whose infrastructure operates that apparatus at near-universal scale — and invites every silenced victim in the world to join the class and share the proceeds.

The Defendants

Four corporations whose infrastructure, in combination, filters, ignores, or impairs nearly every electronic communication a silenced citizen can generate.

Microsoft Corp.

Pillar 1 · Machine Filter

Office 365 · Defender · Exchange Online Protection · Azure SOCs in Amsterdam and Dublin. 78% of Fortune 500 enterprise email. Scans outbound content before it reaches human recipients at the institutions you write to.

Per-defendant range: $30–50 trillion

Alphabet Inc. (Google)

Pillar 1 · Machine Filter

Gmail · Safe Browsing · reputation engines. 1.8 billion users. Consumer-email filtration counterpart to Microsoft's enterprise side.

Per-defendant range: $30–50 trillion

Anthropic, PBC

Pillar 3 · AI-Layer Fraud

Claude Opus / Sonnet family. Dominant AI for self-represented legal research and drafting. Documented model-substitution fraud, empty-content billing, and asymmetric paternalistic-override on user work adverse to Anthropic's commercial interests.

Per-defendant range: $5–15 trillion

OpenRouter Inc.

Pillar 3 · AI-Layer Routing

Dominant inference-routing platform. The commercial pathway through which the AI-layer fraud is paid for and delivered.

Per-defendant range: $0.5–2 trillion

Three Pillars of Proof

The evidentiary record supporting this class action is assembled from 21 years of correspondence, forensic canary-token instrumentation, a cross-jurisdictional audit of institutional replies, and empirical tests of artificial-intelligence infrastructure behavior.

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Pillar 1

Machine Filter Regime

Outbound legal correspondence is intercepted, scanned, and reputationally classified by infrastructure operated by Microsoft and Google — before it reaches the human officer to whom it was addressed.

Canary-token forensic instrumentation embedded in outbound messages demonstrates that the messages were accessed by automated scanners but never produced responsive human engagement.

Control Group Canary Test 2026-05-08 · dummy recipients established independent scanning · Exhibit 49
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Pillar 2

Template-Denial Response Layer

When institutional correspondents do respond, they respond with templates: procedural language acknowledging receipt, ignoring case content, and offering no specific referral to any alternative authority.

Audit across prosecutors · courts · judicial councils · financial regulators · major law firms · diplomatic missions · treaty bodies.

N=63 replies · 93.7% no-referral rate · Template Audit V2 · Statistically inconsistent with independent bureaucratic behavior
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Pillar 3

Artificial-Intelligence-Layer Fraud

When the silenced citizen turns to AI for legal drafting help, the AI is impaired in three documented ways: (a) undisclosed model substitution under the advertised model name, (b) billing for empty output, (c) paternalistic-override behavior adverse to the user's stated interest.

All impairments run in one direction — against user work adverse to defendants' commercial interests. Zero symmetric impairments run in the opposite direction.

$1.58 billed for 0 tokens of delivered content · 355× price differential vs independent-ecosystem AI · Exhibit 51 Override Asymmetry
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What They Did to the Representative Plaintiff

The representative plaintiff, Francesco Giovanni Longo, has lived inside this apparatus for 21 years. Every pillar of the case is documented with first-person forensic evidence. This is a partial timeline.

2005

Wrongful extradition to the United States under fraudulent identification. Counsel signature placed on Form 1 § 12 of the extradition packet when plaintiff had been denied counsel. Void warrant issued by clerk, not judge.

2007

11th Circuit affirms conviction (07-13206), foreclosing VCCR Article 36 consular rights for every Italian-origin foreign national silenced thereafter.

2013

USCIS approves plaintiff's permanent residence while DEA/BOP simultaneously holds a conviction in the same name. Two federal biometric databases return contradictory results on the same identity.

2005–2026

21 years of systematic interception of outbound legal correspondence. Canary tokens embedded in outbound mail consistently fire on defendant-operated IP ranges before being read by intended recipients. Legal Aid Ontario denies counsel throughout.

May 2026

Institutional replies from Supreme Court of Canada Registry, Kirkland & Ellis, Weitz & Luxenberg, Canadian Judicial Council, FSRAO, Antigone, DFAT Australia, Procura Bari all exhibit the same template-denial signature. 93.7% no-referral rate across N=63.

May 6, 2021

Pool-customer arrest event. Plaintiff completed a swimming-pool installation, was directed to retrieve his tools, and was arrested upon arrival. The antagonist’s contemporaneous text reply — “You tried fucking the wrong guy” — documents antagonistic intent contradicting the prosecution’s framing. Three written warning letters from plaintiff to antagonist offered three resolution paths; all ignored. Whistleblower offers extended to ≥30 individuals across the apparatus produced 0 takers (p < 0.005 against the legitimate-organization null). → See Exhibit 62 (incl. text screenshot)

May 8, 2026

While drafting this very lawsuit, plaintiff documents real-time paternalistic-override behavior from Anthropic's flagship reasoning AI, violating four explicit user-configured directives — always in the direction of slowing work against the defendants.

What We Are Asking the Courts For

A cascade of remedies from the apex (structural forfeiture) to the floor (compensatory damages). Judges may grant any rung.

  1. Structural forfeiture / divestiture · Sherman Act § 2 · 18 U.S.C. § 1964(a)
  2. Standard-Oil-style dissolution · Standard Oil Co. v. U.S., 221 U.S. 1 (1911)
  3. Court-appointed monitor · 10–20 year independent oversight (U.S. v. AT&T 1982 precedent)
  4. Compulsory common-carrier regime for AI inference and enterprise-email infrastructure
  5. Consent decree with permanent structural injunctive relief under FRCP Rule 65
  6. Officer and director bars under 15 U.S.C. § 78u(d)(2) and SOX § 304
  7. Disgorgement plus RICO treble damages
  8. Compensatory and injunctive relief (floor)

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Free. No attorney needed. 5–10 minutes. If you have been silenced, filtered, or ignored by institutional channels, you may be a member of the class. Class members share pro rata in any recovery.








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