PM Worldwide has supplied us with the newest instance of an MLM firm unable to take a touch.
As a part of the corporate’s lengthy operating beef with TV2, PM Worldwide has filed a 3rd attraction.
PM Worldwide’s beef with TV2 dates again to late 2017.
A phase on TV2’s Well being Management program alleged, based mostly on their very own analysis, that PM Worldwide was a pyramid scheme advertising merchandise containing sugar powder.
This prompted PM Worldwide to file a grievance with the Oslo Metropolis Police Division, looking for censorship of TV2’s aired phase and accompanying report.
Oslo Police declined to take motion, prompting PM Worldwide to file an attraction.
The primary attraction was rejected and PM Worldwide was ordered to pay TV2’s prices.
A second attraction was filed with the Norwegian Supreme Court docket’s Enchantment Committee.
That attraction was additionally denied and as soon as once more PM Worldwide was orderd to pay prices.
Now seven months later, PM Worldwide has filed a 3rd attraction with the Borgarting Court docket of Enchantment.
In keeping with certainly one of TV2’s attorneys, PM Worldwide “strongly disagrees” with earlier judgments” and refers to them as “loopy”.
The District Court docket has taken the insane step of departing from the understanding of abnormal Norwegians as to the time period “pyramid exercise”, which most readers and TV viewers naturally understand as an allegation of criminal activity.
PM Worldwide have additionally disclosed that following airing of TV2’s phase, they’ve skilled a “dramatic fall in gross sales” of their merchandise.
Talking with Dagens Naeringsliv, TV2 maintains it ‘has not printed something that’s illegal‘.
(That is) a case the place a big, worldwide firm is making an attempt to restrict freedom of expression of the media.
If corporations corresponding to PM Worldwide succeed with techniques of scaring editorial employees from operating essential journalism, we now have a serious societal drawback.
Will PM2 Worldwide win their third attraction? Most likely not.
Keep tuned…