beTrayedMe said...
I feel a psychic episode descending upon me...
*wafts incense*
What do I see? I see a room... yes, an office. An office full of young people in casual clothes. Through the open door I can see a pool table and an inflatable green alien among tables with computers...a space redolent with earnest frivolity.
But in the room there is no frivolity. There are frowns and worried looks. An analyst recites from Judge Harvey's ruling. Pens scribble furiously on paper. There is no laughter. Someone says quietly: "Oh shit!".
September 15, 2010 1:02 AM
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Interesting use of words but I don't see that the impact of the damage Trade Me have proliferated is of much concern to individual staff members? The most they can lose is their job, they are anonymous people largely, and the harm they have facilitated is apparently of little or no concern to them. They don't get it, because they're not in the firing line. Everything for them is distant and anonymous, there will be jokes abroad among them as to various contentious issues for which they must pretend concern, but nothing to take home with them, nothing of the nature of the harm they have caused David or Joe and others.
But I think it helps give a clearer construct of the overall picture, although it is still uncertain why TM continue to allow defamation when the law (made clear in the whaleoil case) shows their responsibility. I now think that perhaps they've employed the head in the sand tactic to their disadvantage, because all the Law, according to Judge Harvey, links their responsibility, day by day Trade Me add to the harm, having already received complaints, been sued, and then having had additionally citations brought against them. Even the obvious enjoinment of posters such as nina_s, rodney osook, cannot mitigate the larger destruction of their position, that they didn't act, when obviously, very very obviously,they, along with the individual posters, are liable.
You say here:
ReplyDelete"The most they can lose is their job, they are anonymous people largely, and the harm they have facilitated is apparently of little or no concern to them."
This raises a question: there has been much discussion of WHO is doing WHAT when it comes to the stalking and harassment. But not so much of WHY. So what is behind it? What is the motivation? Who are these people, and who, exactly, is pulling their strings? Who has to gain from it, and what is it they have to gain? What are the connections?