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background with "ChatGPT" and its logo visible in white.

John,

I’m sitting here in a bit of shock, looking at a 13-page court subpoena I
just received.

It’s from OpenAI’s lawyers, under authority from a US judge, and
it "commands" us to hand over pretty much every single private email,
document, note, chat, or anything else related to our campaign to protect
the world’s most important tech non-profit.

This is huge. OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, has billions riding on its
conversion from a non-profit to a for-profit. Its CEO, Sam Altman, plans
to get filthy rich off his tax-subsidized company. And we’re maybe his
biggest public opponent; we’re so effective on our shoestring budget that
they think we’re funded by Elon Musk!

It’s laughable (have they seen our campaigns??) — but it’s still a huge
threat. We urgently need to hire outstanding lawyers to go up against Big
Tech’s best — even just fighting the subpoena will be costly.

Legal bullying to silence opposition is what these guys do. It’s how Big
Tech is built. But we’re not backing down, because we exist to fight
corporate bullies. So we’re turning this attack into determination.

Donate to help defend our work together, and let’s send OpenAI and the
rest of Big Tech a message: if you come after us, you’ll only make us
stronger.



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Ultimately, this is happening because we’re beating OpenAI, badly. They
wanted to sneak through this restructuring, privatize all the public money
they built their company with, and laugh all the way to the bank. 

But our campaigning helped push the Attorney Generals of California and
Delaware to tell them “not so fast”. And they had to scale back their
plan, big time.

So they’re attacking us to undermine our credibility. They’re attacking us
because they live in a bubble and can’t believe over 100,000 people around
the world just don’t want them to build a dangerous AI company chasing
profit over the common good.

Together we’re beating OpenAI out in the real world: can you help us beat
them in court too and fund all Ekō’s work to fight corporate power?



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Your donation will help power Ekō and our campaigns worldwide fighting for
people and the planet. Will you chip in?



  Thanks for all that you do,  
Emma and the Ekō team



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More information:

[ [link removed] ]The Money OpenAI Is Making by Betraying Its Nonprofit Roots Is
Obscene Futurism 06 August 2025

[ [link removed] ]Protect OpenAI's non-profit mission Ekō

 

Ekō is a worldwide movement of people like you, working together to hold corporations accountable for their actions and forge a new, sustainable path for our global economy.

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