Sticks and Stones may break my bones, but talk shit about me and I’ll take your ass to court!

Posted by TCombs in Random      1 comment

Mar
3

A Texas judge has ordered an online news site to unveil identifying details about 178 anonymous commenters on the site. The order came after a couple, Mark and Rhonda Lesher, sued the numerous anonymous commenters posting to Topix.com for making what they considered to be “perverted, sick, vile, inhumane accusations” about them. 
The Leshers were originally thrust into the Texas spotlight in 2008 after being accused of sexually assaulting an unidentified former client of Mark Lesher. That’s when thousands of comments began piling up on the community news aggregator Topix to discuss the sexual assault charges. As with most things on the Internet, many Topix users felt free to let loose with nasty comments about the Leshers.
The Leshers were found not guilty of the charges after a criminal trial. That, however, wasn’t the end of the 70-some individual threads posted to Topix about them. “It just… basically made us both feel like common criminals,” the Leshers told the Dallas Morning News (via TechDirt). “It’s like someone had basically raped us of our reputation and our standing in the community over and over and over again.”                                         CLICK HERE FOR THE FULL STORY

Ok…so, it seems “The Leshers” are a little less than happy about some shit people said about them on a BLOG. So before I rant, here’s the definition of a blog:

blog

Definition

A frequent, chronological publication of personal thoughts and Web links.

Now that you know what a Blog is, it’s time for everyone to STFU!  Hey, once someone spread a rumor about me, and now they are walking in concrete sandles on the bottom of the Mississippi River, but I didn’t waste taxpayer money by taking them to court.

Seriously, I get the fact that these people are pissed that they were accussed of some pretty serious crimes and those allegations were made public.  Then, inevitably, people on the internet turned on them, made some jokes and now their reputation is suffering.  Actually Mrs. Lesher said, “Basically raped us of our reputation”…”Over and over and over again”.  Which I believe is a poor choice of words, considering they were just acquited of sexual assult.  But maybe “The Leshers” are a ‘do as I say, not as I do’ kind of family.

Listen, The Leshers are not the first people to be verbally raped online and they are certainly not the last.  I’m sure somewhere, somehow, somebody right now is verbally raping them.  Unfortunately for them, we have this little thing called “The First Ammendment”.  Sure, I understand that my rights end -where your rights begin.  However, this is no different than kids on a playground spreading rumors.  It’s no different than all the bullshit celebs go through.  It’s like a strip club, if you’re offended by it, don’t go in there.  If you don’t like what people are saying about you, don’t read it.

The Leshers are only keeping this story alive by going after all the people that made comments about them.  If they drop it, the story dies.  Besides, they are pissed about comments and opinions people had about them.  If we could be awarded civil lawsuits for negative and unnecessary comments, every man in the free world would have his woman in front of a judge today.  That shit is like a female gene or something….but I digress……

Good luck trying to find out who spread the horrible rumor that you have c00ties! 
Cheers!

I’m out Biotches!