Link to idiocy.
For those of you who don't understand TV news -- what they put on their Web sites, aside from the headline, at least here in Tulsa, is their actual script. And yes, it is a script.
Revenge As Close As Your Computer Keyboard
Tulsa - From search engines to e-mail, everyone is just a click away from a communications revolution. The Internet can even be used to extract revenge. But, as NewsChannel 8's Diana Zoga explains, what you say online could come back to haunt you.
* That is the intro. From here, it goes into the actual "report."
On the World Wide Web, you can find just about anything, even the details of your personal life. Former OU football standout Kejuan Jones is immortalized on the internet as a cheater. His name and picture, along with dozens of other Tulsa men, is posted on the website dontdatehimgirl.com.
"It kind of is a violation because it does go into a person's personal life and telling everybody that he's this guy, basically putting a bad name on somebody they don't even know."
But, revenge on the Internet isn't just about love. It's also about business.
"This is all new, an all new phenomenon," says Terry Turner, owner of Alioli Restaurant.
Turner's brookside restaurant has been the subject of Internet buzz since Monday when a customer circulated e-mails complaining about the service, even blogging about it online.
"Customers' friends have been calling and e-mails coming from across the city that want to know what the story is," Turner says. "If its true, it's taken on a life of its own."
Kristyn Price wrote the e-mails. She says it's her right to share. And that means going online.
"The Internet is like talking to somebody," Price says. "Like calling your friends. It's just as easy to type an e-mail and send it out."
As for Kejuan, he says don't believe everything you see on the web.
"I'm happy now," he says. "I have a beautiful girlfriend. She's seen the thing and she laughs at it."
You can be held accountable for what you post online. Usually, opinions are okay. But, claiming a person or business committed a crime could get you sued. Bottom line -- if the statements are false, malicious and intended to hurt, legally there is a problem.
If you have been the target of online comments, it's a problem. Finding the person responsible can be difficult. In some cases, a website can be held accountable for refusing to remove offensive content.[/quote]
* A gift for you tards.
I don't even know where to begin with this. You fuckers are always bitching about the media, and this is why.
Let's start with this gem, just for kicks:
Amazingly insightful.If you have been the target of online comments, it's a problem. Finding the person responsible can be difficult. In some cases, a website can be held accountable for refusing to remove offensive content.
I'm glad I can go to sleep now -- KNOWING I may or may not have offended someone, and KNOWING that Kejuan "doesn't believe eveything" he's seen on the Web.
Thank GOD.
