Woman Gets Revenge Courtesy of Google Images

another similar writes "This article teaches us that if you happen to have a bad break up with someone who's reasonably tech-savvy, your descriptively captioned photos might end up all over the internet. From the article: 'Upset boyfriends and girlfriends are nothing new. There are plenty of stories of girlfriends getting back at their ex-boyfriends for mistreatment and visa versa. But in the age where Google ranks supreme, you do not want to mess with a girl who knows how to manipulate Google.'"

Comments

Let that be a lesson to you!

[mwvdlee]

If you discover you're dating a vengeful psycho bitch, don't ever break up with her.

Re:Let that be a lesson to you!

[JazzXP]

You never know, maybe he had it coming. I'm curious to see what he did to deserve this kind of response.

Re:Let that be a lesson to you!

[grcumb]

You never know, maybe he had it coming. I'm curious to see what he did to deserve this kind of response.

My guess? He gave her up. He let her down. He never came around. HE HURT HER.

Re:Let that be a lesson to you!

[Seumas]

And if this story was about a guy, it would be about a frightning stalker who might murder her rather than fodder for lighthearted joking.

Re:Let that be a lesson to you!

[log0n]

So someone could have gone to prison for how they treated you, but you're ok with it? ...

Re:Let that be a lesson to you!

[webmistressrachel]

+10,000 Insightful. But I don't have mod points, and I never had that many anyways even when I did. And, yes, I'm a girl. A real one.

Re:Let that be a lesson to you!

[pugugly]

Going by my experience with women that overreact like this? He turned out to be exactly the guy her parents and two dozen friends said he was when they tried to warn her off.

But she was *sure* he would change . . . for her . . . for their love was something . . . special . . .

or not.

Pug

Re:Let that be a lesson to you!

[pipatron]

And even if you did have that many mod points, you could only use one of them on the same post.

Re:Let that be a lesson to you!

[Tjebbe]

Somehow that made me lose the game.

Re:Let that be a lesson to you!

[Anonymous Coward]

I think that those pictures speak more poorly of what kind of person the ex-girlfriend is. She dated this guy, so obviously she liked who he was at one point and now she turns around and backstabs him with a bunch of childish "gay" photo captions. I'm not saying the guy isn't a jerk, I don't know, just that her actions portray her as a pathetic individual who was unable to cope with losing him.

Re:Let that be a lesson to you!

[Anonymous Coward]

Obviously she is just a stupid bitch, and he left her for that reason. Don't you think if she had a valid reason for being mad at him, that she would have used it in her childish "revenge" scheme? She had nothing - and it shows in this image search.

The only thing I have learned about him from the image search is that he appears to be an attractive guy who was unfortunate enough to date a complete psycho.

What happened is pretty obvious. She thought she was all that, he disagreed, and she couldn't handle it and went all psycho.

I wonder what her name is, and what kind of lasting legacy she might have on the web should a few dedicated people decide to give her a life sentence on Google. It could happen. Easily.

It looks like she deserves it too. Let's see her apply for a job when she can't get away from this little revenge scheme. Wait until she is 30 years old, and potential employers are still seeing this childishness when they Google her name. Will they want to hire someone who is so likely to bring them bad PR if they fire her? Will she think it was worth it? I doubt it.

Re:Let that be a lesson to you!

[gmhowell]

He dated an American woman. That's pretty much sufficient to expect any sort of drama.

Re:Let that be a lesson to you!

[webmistressrachel]

True, but hopefully my troll will draw attention to the parent, which is insightful, and will be modded up far more that I could alone. That's worth -2 to my Karma.

Re:Let that be a lesson to you!

[WindBourne]

If I could, I would mod you up.
During a 1 year marriage, I started a divorce because she was just plain mean. During that time, I met another women, fell for her and we started up. After 2 years of divorce and giving my ex everything, my ex then started threatening my unborn son, my ultimate wife, and even the dogs that my ex said that she had wanted. And her demands in court was that she wanted my to pay double the child support that I was paying (1400), alimony of 2000 and her lawyer bill. Upon telling my lawyer and police about the numerous threats, they laughed it off. Yet, my ex had dropped doing her lithium, had attempted suicide multiple times in her life, and had threatened other ppl.

And yet, I could not get the cops or my lawyer to tune in.

You are so correct in your statement.

Re:Let that be a lesson to you!

[sesshomaru]

Ask Phil Hartman about crazy stalker ex-wives.

Oh, wait... you can't.

Re:Let that be a lesson to you!

[tomhudson]

I'm going to go out on a limb and assume that since Jack Whatisname is a minor, the person who did is probably also is.

These are kids. Kids do dumb things :-) So do adults - the difference being that when an adult does it, it's criminal.

Everyone's calling her a "crazy psycho b*tch" - if she were 30 and doing this, I might agree (depending on the circumstances ... for example, if he beat her, he deserves worse than a few smart-ass pics).

But not a kid - ask any parent - ALL kids are crazy. It's the quiet ones that don't get it out of their system and learn some self-control who end up being the quiet ax-murderer on page 1.

I find the assumption at the bottom of the article to be not only stupid, but unfounded:

Lesson? Before you upset your girlfriend or boyfriend, make sure they do not know how Google works. Oh, and never mess with an SEO.

There's NO indication that this is some woman who "knows how Google works" or is into search engine optimization. And from the text on the images, do you really think an adult woman couldn't come up with worse? A LOT worse?

On the whole gender card issue, gender naturally comes into things when you're talking about relationships. Just like it does for sex discrimination. But as long as companies like McDonalds not only think it's okay, but find it profitable to air commercials that show men saying whatever the woman wants to hear just to shut her up so she won't dump him, we've got a problem that goes way beyond "political correctness."

On a side note - will this post do until your troll comes along? :-)

Re:Let that be a lesson to you!

[oobayly]

Obligatory xkcd

Re:Let that be a lesson to you!

[TheLink]

Yet, my ex had dropped doing her lithium, had attempted suicide multiple times in her life, and had threatened other ppl.

See that's a difference between men and women, and why cops etc don't take it as seriously.

Most women don't do a good job of killing, even when it comes to themselves ;).

Whereas if a guy has started the process of killing, the target will be dead if nothing else stops him.

Re:Let that be a lesson to you!

[UnknowingFool]

It could have been worse. I know someone who married a half-Spanish, half-German woman. As was put to him by on of his buddies.
"I am happy for you because she's totally hot. But do you realize what you've gotten yourself into?
I hope for your sake you never do anything to get her extremely angry. The Spanish side of her will be passionately pissed enough to cut off your balls. . . and the German side has the wherewithal to see it to the end."

Re:Let that be a lesson to you!

[demonlapin]

And let this be a lesson to you, young Slashdotters: if you find you must divorce a woman, do so. But until said divorce is final, with the judge's signature upon it and its decree formally entered into the legal record, DO NOT TALK TO OTHER WOMEN. DO NOT TOUCH OTHER WOMEN. DO NOT TOUCH YOURSELF AND THINK OF OTHER WOMEN. Be a monk, and stay the ever-loving hell away from other women, because all you can cause yourself is pain.

Re:Let that be a lesson to you!

[Kokuyo]

I'm confused... you were married to this women for only one year, in which her psycho-bitch tendencies became obvious enough to warrant a divorce.

How fucking long did you know her before marrying her?! I mean if you dated her for two years beforehand, are you freaking telling me there wasn't enough evidence to have you run far and run fast? And if you didn't have enough time to realize she was psycho, what the fuck were you doing marrying her?!

Seriously, someone help me come up with a scenario where this dude isn't just plain fucking stupid...

Yeah, go ahead, mod me down, but I keep hearing this sort of thing time and again. They always tell me "but she suddenly changed!". And I go: "So she didn't expect you to read her mind and moods before, ever? So she never gave you a hard time for forgetting something but expected you to treat her as if she was perfect?"

The reply: "Oh, come on! Every woman is like that!"

And I just go headdesk.

As long as men take whatever woman will have them and don't EXPECT to be treated fairly and as a partner instead of someone who has to be grateful to even be allowed around a female, this shit will keep repeating.

Re:Let that be a lesson to you!

[flonker]

I know a guy who had his ex try to run him down with her car, with the kids in the car. She even told the kids, "I hope you said goodbye to daddy, because this is the last time you will ever see him." The police showed up, and were treating him like a criminal, acting as if he had started the whole incident. That is, until the female cop asked to speak to his daughter, and he gave his permission, and the female cop asked the daughter what happened.

"Mommy tried to kill daddy"

After which, the crazy ex was taken to the police station, locked up, her own parents refused to bail her out because they thought she was crazy, and then all charges were dropped for no readily apparent reason.

This happened in Chicago btw.

Re:Let that be a lesson to you!

[Luckyo]

You should know that most police and social workers will take report and file it into rubbish bin, or laugh you out of the door when reporting "spousal abuse by a female".

The laws, and attitudes were made to protect women from men. Not vice versa. This is a fairly well documented problem in criminology, but there's no real drive to fix it.

Re:Let that be a lesson to you!

[makomk]

There is a reason for this double-standard: physical abuse is usually treated more seriously than mental abuse (the latter is often hard to entangle as it frequently goes both ways, whilst physical abuse almost always goes in one direction) and males are more likely to physically abuse their female partner than the other way around.

Nope, the exact same double standard applies to physical abuse too. To the point, IIRC, that the better domestic violence advice services for men in many countries advise against calling the police if you've been violently abused by your female partner - they're trained to assume men under this circumstance must've done something bad to deserve it and arrest them. (This can mean leaving kids alone with someone violent, but since she's female this is obviously the safer option. I'm not kidding, people really think like this, particularly feminists.)

Re:Let that be a lesson to you!

[AmiMoJo]

A good point. What she did was a fairly mild reaction by the standards of teenagers, especially teenage boys. Spreading revealing shots of your ex-girlfriend as a form of revenge is not uncommon in UK schools, if the statistics are be to believed.

It isn't even a new phenomenon. Printed photos would get shown around since the birth of the affordable camera, the only difference now being that the internet distributes the images much more efficiently and makes it hard to get them removed. Take TFA for example, it has ensured that this guy's name will forever be associated with news stories and cropped images of the whole affair.

Re:Let that be a lesson to you!

[Maestro4k]

How fucking long did you know her before marrying her?! I mean if you dated her for two years beforehand, are you freaking telling me there wasn't enough evidence to have you run far and run fast? And if you didn't have enough time to realize she was psycho, what the fuck were you doing marrying her?! Seriously, someone help me come up with a scenario where this dude isn't just plain fucking stupid...

It's quite simple: people change once they're married. Haven't you known of people who lived together happily for years, sometimes 10+, then they get married and end up divorced and hating each other within a year? There's something about that legal piece of paper saying you're married that changes how people behave. Not everybody of course, but it happens often enough to almost be a given. Then you have the manipulative jerks who manage to keep their partner completely disillusioned as to their real personality, that then drop the act as soon as they manage to get married. Sometimes they even keep the act up until there's children.

This applies to both sexes, not just females. Life's not black and white, when dealing with other people especially so. No matter how well you think you know a person, you can never know everything about them simply because you're not them.

Besides, he mentioned she stopped taking her lithium. If she stopped taking care of her bi-polar soon after marriage it'd explain her personality change easily. Left untreated bi-polar people can easily become crazy people, threatening, violent, hateful, etc.

Re:Let that be a lesson to you!

[AmiMoJo]

Or just avoid getting married to someone you have not lived with long enough to find out about all their flaws.

If your marriage lasts longer than your courtship you're doing it wrong.

Re:Let that be a lesson to you!

[goose-incarnated]

Let me give you my little narrative. I knew my ex-wife for 11 years before marriage. Of those years, we dated for six. We were married for three (and a bit).

When I decided to divorce her (not saying why - I still refuse to divulge details of that final argument we had), her response was immediate and total:
1. I was arrested 15 minutes later for assault.
2. I was served a protection order the next morning (while still in jail) forbidding me from contact with her or my son (wrt son, contact was stipulated "after family advocates investigation).
3. FA Investigation took 3 months, during which I had no access to my son.
4. I was arrested a further 3 times on a variety of different charges (more assault, violation of protection order, etc).
5. She twice got men to (attempt) to beat me up.
6. She repeatedly threatened to have me killed.
7. She phoned my employer (a large-ish research institution) twice to inform them that I'm a criminal. (I'm not, btw - two years of fighting in court got me 4 acquittals).
8. She taught my son to call me "Uncle", and strikes him (in my presence) when he calls me daddy.

The point is, I never knew that she was like this, even though I knew her for so long. Sometimes the crazy is inside, just waiting for a chance to come out - you never can tell. It's now 3 years later, and I'm back in court again! And with this constant harrasment from her side, I'm done even trying to find a g/friend now - they all get scared off (the first women I dated was about 8 months after my separation: and that did not last).

Re:Let that be a lesson to you!

[arth1]

males are more likely to physically abuse their female partner than the other way around

No, physical abuse is just as common, if not more common by women. It's just that there's a social stigmata attached to men being abused by women, so it's vastly underreported. And when it is reported, it's likely to be counted as abuse against women, because guess what happens when a man reports violence?
That's right -- the abusive woman will say "he hit me first", and the police will believe her, because they have the same bias as you do.

Re:Let that be a lesson to you!

[Ephemeriis]

And if this story was about a guy, it would be about a frightning stalker who might murder her rather than fodder for lighthearted joking.

Hooray for double-standards!

Re:Let that be a lesson to you!

[Ephemeriis]

I'm confused... you were married to this women for only one year, in which her psycho-bitch tendencies became obvious enough to warrant a divorce.

How fucking long did you know her before marrying her?! I mean if you dated her for two years beforehand, are you freaking telling me there wasn't enough evidence to have you run far and run fast?

I don't have exhaustive information about this situation... I'm going off the same post you are. But you might be surprised to learn that people don't always act like themselves when they're dating.

You don't occupy the same house. You don't wake up next to each-other every day. You don't go to sleep next to each-other every night. You don't have to balance a budget, or deal with bills. You just see each-other periodically for fun stuff.

Trust me, things change after you're married (or co-habitating for a while). A kind of sameness or boredom sets in. Responsibilities pile up.

Things that were cute or quirky when you were dating become downright annoying. You see new things that you never saw before, because you just weren't around all the time. And she's experiencing the same thing from you.

It's not terribly uncommon for a relationship to suddenly fall apart as soon as you move in together. It's a huge stress for everyone.

And if you didn't have enough time to realize she was psycho, what the fuck were you doing marrying her?!

I honestly believe that, at least here in the US, folks are getting married far too quickly. They don't get to know each-other well enough. They mistake infatuation for love. And then they get a divorce when things cool off.

However, you really do need to live together for a good chunk of time to really get to know someone. And, here in the US, that's still frowned-upon.

So, he may have thought he knew her very well. And he wouldn't have known just how wrong he was until they actually moved in together (usually after the wedding).

Yeah, go ahead, mod me down, but I keep hearing this sort of thing time and again. They always tell me "but she suddenly changed!". And I go: "So she didn't expect you to read her mind and moods before, ever? So she never gave you a hard time for forgetting something but expected you to treat her as if she was perfect?"

The reply: "Oh, come on! Every woman is like that!"

Everyone is like that. Even men.

We all have moments when we don't actually voice our needs, and then get upset when they aren't met. We all get annoyed when others screw up, and when they point out our flaws. Lots of people actually see this in themselves and try to moderate it. Lots of people don't.

But it's very normal to see this in other people.

And when you're dating, you might see in once in a while and not think much of it. Not even know whether it's going to be frequent enough to be a problem.

And then you move in together... And it's happening every single day... And they're resistant to change...

As long as men take whatever woman will have them and don't EXPECT to be treated fairly and as a partner instead of someone who has to be grateful to even be allowed around a female, this shit will keep repeating.

The fact of the matter is that, in the US at least, relationships are not equal. Hell, your wording up there (it's the man's fault for acting this way) simply reinforces that.

We've all got baggage we carry around. A lot of it is handed out by our society - parenting, mass media, stereotypes, literature, etc.

The trick is to find somebody you like, and then actually get to know them well enough to learn what kind of baggage they've got. And, at the same time, be honest enough that they can see what kind of baggage you've got.

I honestly believe that a very big part of this includes living together and sharing responsibilities for a good couple of years.

But s

Re:Let that be a lesson to you!

[Slime-dogg]

If your marriage lasts longer than your courtship you're doing it wrong.

There is something deeply flawed about this statement.

Re:Let that be a lesson to you!

[Nemi]

I don't believe to two seconds that there were no indications that she could do this kind of thing. My guess is that you never knew she could do this kind of thing *to you*. You mean to tell me that she never showed that she was self-centered, and didn't take responsibility for her actions in all the time you were together? Seriously? Never turned on one of her friends? Never did something bad and then blamed others when she got caught for it? Never acted like she was entitled to things she didn't earn? Never?

The problem is that people need to understand that you really don't know someone until you see them in a crisis situation, and that can take years. However, watching their general behavior can tell you much. Most people will rationalize their SO's bad behavior by saying "she would never do that to me though".

Re:Let that be a lesson to you!

[GooberToo]

We have a winner!!!

Countlessly, I've seen friends mask horrible insights into their other's behavior because they like sex. The expression, "love is blind", is completely true; albeit, with "sex is blind", to be far more accurate. All too often, so long as sex is involved, people absolutely refuse to critically review the compatibility of their mate. All too often, their search for compatibility starts and ends at body parts.

The result really isn't surprising because they are taking all of their cues from society. Society very clearly tells men to hunt sex. Sex is a prize and women are a necessity of that prize. Society very clearly tells women to use sex as a weapon and to clue men as harshly as possible when you can't otherwise manipulate your way. Which basically means, from day one they are not only using each other, but manipulating each other. Their relationship has absolutely no basis of compatibility. Hardly surprising that selfish, manipulative people, who refuse to examine their relationship beyond body part compatibility, have such horribly failures in their relationship.

And as a side note, the often portrayed, "strong, black women, relationship godess", is the perfect recipe to completely destroy any and all relationships. And its not just me saying so. Statistically, black women have the worst relationships, typically without a man, with kids, and extremely unhappy. Moreso, black men are being pushed away from black women by black women. Far too many black women have been brainwashed by "black culture" and especially shitty movies, which teach black women to be whores and alone; incompatible with any self respecting man. The movie, "Guess Who", has a great example of dysfunctional, "black" relationships. I point this out because many aspects of non-black society embrace many of the same dysfunctional concepts, but to a lessor, less passionate degree.

visa versa

[OrangeTide]

vice versa.
vice is pronounced either as one syllable or two (two is traditional).

Re:visa versa

[Tablizer]

You see, "visa versa" is when an American goes to India to take an IT job away from Indians.

Captions?

[Anonymous Coward]

She could easily have done much worse than captions. Think 4chan.

Re:Captions?

[Eightbitgnosis]

You're right. He doesn't even have a penis on his face yet

Love the `cute' tone of the article

[Magnus Pym]

If the genders had been reversed, he would have been judged guilty of criminal sexual assault and categorized as a violent sexual offender. Gotta love those double standards.

Re:Love the `cute' tone of the article

[Anonymous Coward]

If the genders had been reversed, he would have been judged guilty of criminal sexual assault and categorized as a violent sexual offender. Gotta love those double standards.

Welcome to the human race.

It's women who decide who to mate with - because they're the ones with the most invested in the results.

Simple biology.

(OT, but somewhat related: the next time some feminist tries to use the fact that female chimps are very promiscuous, you get to use the fact that the male chimp beats the living shit out or even kills of any female chimp that he finds cheating on him....)

Umm... Revenge Fail.

[fuzzyfuzzyfungus]

While her Google-fu may be good, I'd say that Mr. Weppler's ex could use some work in the wit and viciousness departments.

Without exception, the captions were humorless and(at least without some knowledge of Weppler's background and/or personal life/activities) not at all cutting. A few generic insults, some just nonsensical.

She also seems to have chosen a photo(looks almost like a studio shot rather than a candid) that, while it probably doesn't show him as a genius master of fashion(I'm no judge of this stuff, I can't tell), appears to be reasonably flattering. Neutral background, no embarrassing props/situations/penises sharpied onto his face. Hair and clothes, whether or not well chosen, are in good order, and the lighting is suppressing any facial acne/irregularities.

Plus, of course, you have to be Really Good to pull off insults without sounding pathetic and petty when you are exiting a relationship(even harder when you are the dumped party). Presumably, every one of your oh-so-trenchant insults is either fictitious, or pertains to a quality possessed by somebody you were happy to date until just recently. That takes comedic talent to dodge, and she appears to lack it.

Re:Umm... Revenge Fail.

[tomhudson]

Did you scroll down to the second page of results?

Now, since a previous article complained about the lack of women participating in Wikipedia, maybe we can see some articles on Doing a Weppler, Wepplerizing, and Jack Weppler Demotivational Posters.

Re:Umm... Revenge Fail.

[tomhudson]

What do you expect from a couple of teenagers? This is a kid who did this, not an adult woman. If you've ever had teenagers, you know they're ALL crazy.

Or rather

[Snaller]

If you must date make sure not to date psychopaths.
Better to just stay in the basement.

Re:Or rather

[93 Escort Wagon]

If you must date make sure not to date psychopaths.
Better to just stay in the basement.

Already on it!

DMCA to the rescue?

[bigtallmofo]

My minor son's ex-girlfriend took a copyrighted picture of him (we own copyright) and uploaded it more than 60 times to a website

This might be the first good time I can think of to use the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. The mother should've sent a DMCA takedown notice to every company hosting the image including Google. Instead of going through barely monitored channels, it would have gone through the highest priority channels because if they don't respond to a DMCA takedown notice in a timely manner, they're liable for damages.

Based on the things the sick girl wrote on the images, it would seem the parents have a good case for libel against her. Many of her joking accusation are provably false and disparaging.

Re:DMCA to the rescue?

[mug funky]

in soviet Australia, truth is not a valid defense in libel cases.

feels good man. feels like free speech.

Re:somebody

[Chuck Chunder]

Hire her?

And hope you don't have to fire her?

Why is this news?

[Rinnon]

I can't figure out why this is news in any way. First off, TFA suggests that they are minors. So just to set the stage, we're essentially talking about a teenage breakup here. Not a great start. Next, we have a girl who decided it would be fun to post images of her boyfriend all over the Internet. Wow, that's a new one! I've never heard of anything like this before! And to top it all off, the double standard here is absurd. As another poster already mentioned, if the shoe was on the other foot, no one would think it's funny or cute in any way. So Slashdot has devolved into a gossip tabloid now? Wonderful.

Now I see why the "News for nerds. Stuff that matters." tag was removed from the top of the site.

Re:Why is this news?

[shadowkil]

I can't figure out why this is news in any way. First off, TFA suggests that they are minors. So just to set the stage, we're essentially talking about a teenage breakup here. Not a great start. Next, we have a girl who decided it would be fun to post images of her boyfriend all over the Internet. Wow, that's a new one! I've never heard of anything like this before! And to top it all off, the double standard here is absurd. As another poster already mentioned, if the shoe was on the other foot, no one would think it's funny or cute in any way. So Slashdot has devolved into a gossip tabloid now? Wonderful.

Now I see why the "News for nerds. Stuff that matters." tag was removed from the top of the site.

I seem to get closer each day to removing /. from my rss feed. Everything that is actual tech news, I tend to have already heard from the source, also in my rss feed (usually from Engadget, Anandtech, or rarely, Daily Tech).

Eventually we should discover whether there is a limit as /. approaches lame that prevents actual unsubscription, or if it will disappear. Near enough that limit, I suppose we are just glossing over the posts without even skimming the summaries?

Re:Why is this news?

[Sponge Bath]

"I can't figure out why this is news..."

You clicked on the story anyways and then took the time to post. In internet publishing terms, the story is a success and your attention (the product) has been delivered to the customer (advertisers). Thank you, come again.

Re:Why is this news?

[Xugumad]

This is the news equivalent of staring into the sky until other people start collecting around you, wondering what you're looking at. I clicked because I figured I had to be missing something other people saw in this story. I was disappointed.

If he were smart...

[Anonymous Coward]

he'd embrace it, and put up some pages of his own - pointing out specifically why someone shouldn't get involved with {nameof} bitch. He might also point out that psychos are great sex, while it lasts.

Re:somebody

[Anonymous Coward]

Why yes, that's just what the work place needs! More sociopaths!

This isn't SEO manipulation

[lul_wat]

She just uploaded his picture to MemeGenerator.

This should be in Idle at best.

Re:somebody

[Penguinisto]

SEOs are kinda slimy anyway, even when they're normal human beings... a *good* SEO who happens to be vindictive and psycho?

What are you, high!?

Smells Fishy..

[AftanGustur]

The story doesn't make sense.. The images are still on www.memegenerator.net and have not been removed at all..

I suspect this is just a hoax, viral marketing or social experiment of some sort.

Re:Copyrights are not with the family

[Aeternitas827]

And, couldn't the captioned works be considered derivative works, for purpose of commentary and satire?

Re:Um what?

[Anonymous Coward]

It isn't because it was a female on male incident. If it was a male on female incident, it would be.

Reasonably tech savvy?

[flimflammer]

So going to http://memegenerator.net/ and creating dozens of captioned pictures is considered tech savvy these days?

She didn't manipulate google or anything for that matter. The moment you create an image there, it's placed in a spot that Google can immediately recognize. She named the "character" and then created a dozen different phrases for him. She even abused the service because you have to certify that you have the legal authority to use/distribute the image you upload, and if the picture is what the mother and son claim it is, she had no right.

An 8 year old child could have done this.

My ex

[rossz]

My ex-wife made the mistake of being a bitch and posting false statements about me. They bordered on libel, but not enough to be worth suing over. Instead, I posted a few things about her that were not at all good for her image but were 100% true. Shortly thereafter googling her name resulted in that post being in the #`1 spot. She threw a hissy fit and threatened to sue me for libel, defamation, etc. I told her to point out any false statements and I would be happy to remove them. I also told her to feel free to sue. She didn't bother to take it any further.

If she hadn't started the hate-fest I would not have made public postings about her.

Re:My ex

[rossz]

I took it down a year ago. The basic summary of what I posted (and all true) was my ex-wife let her 15 year old daughter (my former step-daughter) drink, do drugs, not go to school, and hang out with a 23 year old guy who was farking her and giving her drugs. This was in response to her posting that I had been convicted of a violent crime. I hadn't even been charged with any crime. The worse thing on my record is a well deserved speeding ticket from a few years ago.

Re:My ex

[Hognoxious]

She could have sued you in the UK, where 'truth' is not a defence

Sorry to burst your myth, but in the UK truth is a defence. However the defendant must prove the truth of the statement.

Re:Jack Weppler

[severoon]

So, she writes Google Webmaster Help and demands they remove the image search results because it's a violation of copyright, and her son is a minor.

Um, no. Showing images in image search does not violate the copyright holder's rights. Perhaps the site hosting the images is violating copyright...but even there I wonder. Is this infringement? I don't think so, just like I don't think Shepard Fairey's work constitutions plagiarism, but either way you go on this the question is there.

Her son is a minor. So what? What's that got to do with Google?

In a free society, does someone have the right to express their opinion about someone else?

if you recall pre cell phone days..

[cinnamon colbert]

(probably an urban legend...) Guy is going on a 2 week biz trip; as he leaves the apt, he says to his live in girl friend, I want to break up, when I get back I want you and your stuff outta my apt.
(silence)
Guy comes back, place is spotless, all her stuff is gone.
He notices phone is off the hook
What does he hear ??
At the tone, the time in Tokyo is..
(for you young'uns, it used to be really $$ to make a call overseas, like dollars a minute .....)

Re:somebody

[fahrbot-bot]

Why yes, that's just what the work place needs! More sociopaths!

Apparently you haven't been keeping up with recent events concerning Wall Street brokers and bankers...

Re:Jack Weppler

[frizzantik]

Are you really trying to claim this girl is expressing her opinion? It's harassment, plain and simple.

Re:Jack Weppler

[tomhudson]

I'm Jack's publicist. We go on tour to push his new book deal next week. And we're looking at not one, but TWO sit-coms, after he does that new reality TV show (booked last night).

Re:Dating is for grown-ups

[DarwinSurvivor]

Really? Just how much say do you think the kid REALLY had in his mother getting involved? That's right, let's just make the kid suffer because his mother is a complete freaking idiot.

Jackasses, both of you.

Back in my day ...

[BitZtream]

We'd just call her a psycho bitch and no one would be even a little impressed. She'd also never get a date again since no intelligent person wants to be on the wrong end of her. The same would happen to a guy if he did it.

Today, women get praised because she did it on the Internet ... and a guy would end up being taken to jail, labeled a sex offender and have his life ruined.

Seriously people, what the fuck is wrong with you? This behavior is unacceptable. Do not give her attention. The entire event and everything she does should be ignored, herself included. We seriously need to stop giving people who behave unacceptably any attention.

Is this Jerry Springer or Slashdot?

[AbominousSalad]

1 - I agree strongly with everybody saying this woman had better suffer the same backlash a male would over such behavior.

2 - Unless the gender inequality is the motivation of this "news" item, I'm pretty sure we are the wrong target market for this story.