The reason why newspapers and TV have rules is to protect the person reporting it and themselves from lawsuits from libel and slander.
www.theverge.com
Those guys didnt even read that part and think about it.
Games media and journalists either support left leaning tactics or ignore it.
This is ridiculous. The lawyer for the diver would not agree to represent the diver if Musk was a random scumbum twitter user who has no money. You can pay the lawyer to sue them yourself, sure, but then you spend thousands on the lawyer and win a judgement that will never be paid.
A lot of former 1UP people seem like hardcore lefties. They seemed pretty reserved back in those days. Definitely shows how out of control the current political climate has become.
Definitely agree with this. They are all concentrated in one site. It's a bit like when Yahoo out lawed porn on Tumblr. All the crazy degenerates spread to every area of the internet. That'd probably be the same case if Era got shut down.
He posted it to the internet himself. Or was he held down and forced to?
Of course not. I just don't see what good can come out of this, we shouldn't resolve hate by throwing in more hate. There's enough of that vitriol on Resetera.
I wasn't talking about getting paid. I'm talking about defending myself. And there's plenty of Lawyers who do pro bono work. Just google 'Pro Bono near me' in google. If they think you have a solid case, they'll take it.
Have you even interacted with him to really know that? From what I know of him, he's a good guy. He's helped me out before. Don't judge a person's character by one or two posts, people aren't infallible.
I get what you're saying and even agree, but to be fair, if Era knew about his previous jokes and posts on SW and Push, they'd try and cancel him. So I don't know if he's in any position to place himself on a pedestal.
Good, go tell him what kind of sick of a person he is. See if he cares.
It's a total grab for money and attention. Who knew being video game woke artist could be a career.
Then why do you use a conditional there? I am pretty sure for her to face (legal) consequences, a courtcase would have to show that those were actual fake allegations, so it counts as libel. Just not being able to prove the correctness of her allegations is inssuficient. However, the problem I pointed towards is indeed a major reason public Twitter accusations are very problematic. People accused this way but not in a court have no good way to defend themselves and face the same societal consequences as if they were ruled guilty in court without any chance of a closure, unless they feel really confident about being able to prove their innocence in a libel courtcase.
No, it cannot work like that. If failing to prove rape allegations was sufficient to judge them as libel, reporting any crime, especially rape, would be hell.
The same twitter mob are the types that hate cops for no reason (or to get more woke points from BLM?)
This.
Well you sure as hell cant condemn him guilty automatically. I think there has to be some sort of liability. Remember, she didn't go to friends, family, or authorities. Her first instinct was to post on Twitter. Which by the way probably has more followers than any of us on here so she KNOWS she has influence on social media. Look I'm not say she should be convicted of murder but there as to be SOME for of accountability if it is proven that he was innocent
for anyone that didn't see this TED talk yet. I wish you should.
And no longer support that shit stain website called twitter,
really stop delete your account. Don't give those fucks breathing room.
this is what a sack of shit looks like
Absolutely, my only point was: How would one go aboutproving that, with her detail free accusations? Presumption of innocence is not a viable answer to that.
A dude killed himself over allegations made over a social monster that ruins lives. Rather than her filling a police report over sexual assault. Just to be on the news again. Now did RE go on twitter and start a libel crusade against said dude?
I don't know what the truth is from any of the accusations. I stated that much earlier in the thread.
.Absolutely. She deleted her twitter out of fear obviously. The thing is he was Canadian and I'm not sure if the same laws apply there for suspected rapists!
What lesson is there to be learned here? That people are shit to one another?
If that's what you want to boil it down to. I guess that's all that's left.Absolutely. She deleted her twitter out of fear obviously. The thing is he was Canadian and I'm not sure if the same laws apply there for suspected rapists!
What lesson is there to be learned here? That people are shit to one another?
indeed. if the system is flawed then work towards fixing it. when they almost got clinton as president I'm sure they can work out some improvement
I really don't understand why would going to the police not help in the US, it works all the time where I live. One just need to do it asap after it happened so dna and other evidence can still be collected.
There are good people. You won't find many of them on twitter starting shit though.
From my understanding it wasn't a rape accusation, more of a controlling relationship and something about walking around with his fingers inside her Cunth.
Which is worth as much as toilet paper at this point.
