What’s Facebook’s responsibility when the nation seeks to lynch someone?
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Re: What’s Facebook’s responsibility when the nation seeks to lynch someone?
#2I wonder what (if any) legal recourse Ryan Lanza might have against the news agencies that libeled his name. I imagine it really depends on the exact wording used, but Ryan could have a great defamation/emotional distress case on his hands, when everything settles.
Re: What’s Facebook’s responsibility when the nation seeks to lynch someone?
#3I wonder what (if any) legal recourse Ryan Lanza might have against the news agencies that libeled his name. I imagine it really depends on the exact wording used, but Ryan could have a great defamation/emotional distress case on his hands, when everything settles.
Is it possible to do a... reverse class-action suit? In which you file suit against everyone who created a "Ryan Lanza burn in hell" Facebook page, every news outlet that libeled you, etc., all at once?
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Betteridge's "law" has been mentioned on Hacker News 151 (!) times already. Thrice by you, with the requisite wiki link. Let me be the 50th to ask we stop adding this comment to every article.
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Betteridge's "law" has been mentioned on Hacker News 151 (!) times already. Thrice by you, with the requisite wiki link. Let me be the 50th to ask we stop adding this comment to every article.
Incidentally, HN's memes would be a lot more amusing if we could embed animated images in posts.
Re: What’s Facebook’s responsibility when the nation seeks to lynch someone?
#7If you buy the argument that the Internet would be better off if everyone had their own domain names (as was recently discussed on HN), it doesn't make much sense to then take Facebook to task for not getting involved.
Re: What’s Facebook’s responsibility when the nation seeks to lynch someone?
#8I wonder what (if any) legal recourse Ryan Lanza might have against the news agencies that libeled his name. I imagine it really depends on the exact wording used, but Ryan could have a great defamation/emotional distress case on his hands, when everything settles.
Is it possible to do a... reverse class-action suit? In which you file suit against everyone who created a "Ryan Lanza burn in hell" Facebook page, every news outlet that libeled you, etc., all at once?
That's just called naming multiple defendants.
Re: What’s Facebook’s responsibility when the nation seeks to lynch someone?
#9I wonder what (if any) legal recourse Ryan Lanza might have against the news agencies that libeled his name. I imagine it really depends on the exact wording used, but Ryan could have a great defamation/emotional distress case on his hands, when everything settles.
Is it possible to do a... reverse class-action suit? In which you file suit against everyone who created a "Ryan Lanza burn in hell" Facebook page, every news outlet that libeled you, etc., all at once?
Talk to the RIAA/MPAA/MAFIAA about that, they do it all the time.
There's a very large legal industry surrounding shotgun legal claims in rapid succession throughout the country.
Re: What’s Facebook’s responsibility when the nation seeks to lynch someone?
#10Every time something like this happens people react in quite predictable ways, the creation of Facebook pages is one of the more common ones. Why do people do this? Does it come from social pressure to show just how angry they are with actions, is it just how people cope with terrible news (by doing something even if it's ultimately futile) or is it just another case of humans doing irrational things? My google-fu isn't very good so no results of relevance are coming up, but it seems like there must be a reason behind these reactions.