![]() ![]() ![]() That's still true in the internet age – it doesn't matter if the false utterance is made by blog, twitter, or cartoon on Facebook. Carreon, the law provides a remedy through the tort of defamation. If anyone has uttered false statements of fact about Mr. And now comes Charlie the Censor.īut I must ask - why is a new tort necessary? Rakofsky's fawners - the sort who figure that being an underdog is automatically a sign of having a defensible argument - have rushed to promote (in notably ambiguous terms) this supposed tort. #SITESUCKER IDLE STATUS TRIAL#Entire-internet-suer Joseph Rakofsky already offered the ass-damp tort of "internet mobbing," which in his case meant multiple bloggers criticizing him for making his very first trial an attempt to defend a man accused of murder. Suggestions will be made for ways to deal with the problem that will protect publishers from being required to play censor, including the creation of a new DIRA tort.Įven in lashing out, Carreon is unoriginal. He frequency of DIRAs makes it apparent that old laws concerning defamation need reforming to take account of the pernicious effects of allowing Internet mobs to run riot, placing meaningful limits on what is fair play in the realm of social media. The use of the word "zombies" is always a signifier of serious and credible legal analysis. The purpose of Rapeutation - aside from scrawled-on-the-asylum-wall poetry and disturbing videos - is to advocate for a new, rather ill-defined cause of action to address something called "Distributed Internet Reputation Attack":ĭistributed Internet Reputation Attack (DIRA): noun, an attack against the reputation of an individual that harnesses the distributed efforts of large numbers of both human and digital Internet zombies to proliferate unmanageable quantities of disparaging information in an effort to alter the conduct of the individual or entity. Because being ridiculed based on your bad behavior is equivalent to sexual assault, you know. Carreon has started a website called Rapeutation. The Law Should Be What I Say It Is: Stinging from his recent infamy, Mr. Carreon needs to live with himself, I say we let him cherish it. Inman photographed was technically his own funds, not the funds he raised and forwarded to worthy charities. ![]() Or perhaps Carreon believes he achieved victory because the cash Mr. This is roughly like crowing that you dominated the captain of the firing squad by making him offer you a blindfold and a cigarette before shooting you. But Judge Chen did so in the context of requesting the basis he needed to deny Carreon's application for a temporary restraining order as moot. Inman to submit proof that he had written checks to the two charities. Carreon apparently believes he prevailed because Judge Chen asked Mr. The triumph of good over evil usually is.įorget It, He's Rolling: Charles Carreon, having dismissed his suit against Matt Inman, IndieGoGo, and two national charities, has now declared victory. In This Case It Says "F.U.": Matt Inman has, as promised, posted pictures of the money he raised for charity. I'm at an undisclosed location vacationing with the family, so I will by necessity be brief. It's time for some updates, boys and girls. ![]()
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