This is the first of 22 SLAPP lawsuits Dimitriadis has filed against Alter Ego Media and its journalists to produce a ruling — and its reasoning matters. SLAPP suits — Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation — are legal actions whose purpose is not to prevail in court but to silence journalists and media outlets through the sheer weight of legal costs and proceedings. At the time of this ruling, Dimitriadis has sent 35 cease and desist notices and filed 22 lawsuits against Alter Ego Media. Cease and desist notices and lawsuits that were in reality designed to make it impossible to report on Dimitriadis in connection with the wiretapping scandal at all. The connection between the wiretapping scandal — the court’s own word — and Grigoris Dimitriadis was already part of the public record before our article was published.