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Real-World Consequences of Social Networking Posts
gbulmash sends in a classic Streisand Effect story of a Chicago landlord suing a tenant over a tweet complaining of mold in her apartment. The landlord claims that the tweet caused $50,000 damage to their reputation. If it didn't, then the fallout from their own ill-advised lawsuit surely will. The woman's Twitter account is now gone (possibly on advice of counsel), but the tweet that started it all lives on. And in a similar vein, reader levicivita notes a firing over a political comment on a Facebook page. "Lee Landor, who had been the deputy press secretary to Manhattan Borough President Scott M. Stringer since May, posted comments on her Facebook page criticizing Mr. Gates [Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr.] and the president, whom she referred to at one point as 'O-dumb-a.' ... The borough president has accepted Ms. Landor's resignation, effective immediately."
This may be true in the abstract sense of a "global audience", but really for the vast, vast majority of posts it would be more correct to imagine yourself standing at a podium in a gigantic stadium ... which has 14 people in it, and the microphone is making that feedback noise while you tap it and say "is this thing on?"
If libertarians are so opposed to effective government, why don't they all move to Somalia?
Horizon Realty is a piece of shit company who sues everyone without thinking and has moldy apartments.
In other words, the internet is serious bizness.
"O-dumb-a"
Oh, the irony.
I prefer rogues to imbeciles because they sometimes take a rest.
my boss has no idea who Col. Panic is, nor does he know who anonymous coward is, for that matter