Charles Carreon Finally Surrenders To the Oatmeal

First time accepted submitter Guy From V writes "Charles Carreon, zany lawyer and poster-child for the Streisand Effect (sorry Babs) for his lawsuit against The Oatmeal creator Mattew Innman last year in his original role as legal counsel for Funnyjunk, as reported by ArsTechnica, seems to have finally called it quits. In other news, the River Styx has reportedly dropped below 32 degrees Fahrenheit."

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Impressive...

[fuzzyfuzzyfungus]

Despite being the one who got the ball rolling with the vexatious litigation and absurd threats in the first place, he appears to have learned absolutely nothing from the experience, blaming his failure on the fact that he doesn't have sufficient 'legal remedy' against people calling his idiocy idiotic online, and even manages to drop in a self-pitying line about how lawsuits are just occupying too much of his time.

Guy is so dense and immutable that he could probably be sliced into thin layers and used as armor plate.

(And, since he is a master of good taste and his wife is even crazier, they've given the world http://rapeutation.com/ complete with caricatures (and the guy complains that there aren't enough laws against saying mean things on the internet?) of their enemies. Class act guys, class act.)

Re:Too bad

[khasim]

It's still going on. From TFA:

I never thought that people would say things about me that they did.

Mean people say mean things about him.

If you'd like to see a picture of Carreon's criticsâ"including an Ars Technica writerâ"spewing fecal matter out of their mouths, that too can be accommodated.

But that's okay because ... because ...

My goal is to help people to realize that youâ(TM)re not the only person who gets rapeutated.

... because I'm the victim.

Rapeutated. Heh heh heh. Get it?

I bet that he'll be digging that hole for years to come. Just not as expensively as before. Yet.

I agree that he's stupid, but he's also horrible.

[mosb1000]

“So when you take a situation in which the legal rules don’t impose any effective sanctions on people for that kind of behavior, mob behavior on the Internet, then a legal analyst like myself should look at that situation and say: ‘You can’t fix everything that’s broken,’” he said. “There is not a proper legal remedy for it. I attempted to do something and I made it worse.”

So the problem is not that he was attempting to bring a lawsuit that was clearly without merit in order to harass an innocent comedian, but that the internet mob can't be reasoned with or controlled?

I agree it can't be controlled, and he's a pretty stupid guy for not realizing that going in. But maybe he should also admit (at least to himself) that he's a horrible piece of shit that hates free speech.

Re:Quite the Buddhist there...

[gstoddart]

You can't bring someone else's soul to enlightenment. Sounds like 'Every man for himself' to me.

Well, we're getting pretty far off topic, but two things:

1) Buddhism doesn't have a concept of the 'soul' in the same way as Western religions. The thing which would get reincarnated/lasts after you die isn't "you", but you're a subset of "it" and much more transient. The concept of self and what survives human life is a little different.

2) There's two major schools of Buddhism (and this is a very huge over-simplification): Therevada and Mahayana Buddism; with Theravada being more focused on your own enlightenment (for the reasons you cite), and Mahayana (literally 'the greater oxcart') which has an emphasis on enlightenment of everyone and helping them get there.

So, talking about bringing someone's 'soul' to enlightenment doesn't quite match up with the concepts in Buddhism.

Working to bring other people to enlightenment and benefit all, however, is a feature of all the Mahayana schools (Chan Buddhism in China, Zen in Japan, and all of the Tibetan schools). The Theravada stuff tends to be in and around Thailand/Vietnam.

But it is important to remember Buddhism isn't monolithic, and while they'll agree on some core stuff, there's probably some esoteric places where they differ by quite a bit.