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How a Darth Vader selfie showed the worst side of social media (Australia)
Mashable ^ | May 11, 2015 | Jenni Ryall

Posted on 05/11/2015 11:05:48 AM PDT by EveningStar

A dad has been incorrectly accused of being a pedophile on Facebook by a woman he doesn't know. The woman is now mortified and begging for forgiveness. Both say they are "devastated" by the events surrounding the misunderstanding.

The moral of the story: Don't post stupid things on social media.

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TOPICS: Australia/New Zealand; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: australia; darthvader; facebook; libel; mashable; melbourne; selfie; slander; socialmedia
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1 posted on 05/11/2015 11:05:48 AM PDT by EveningStar
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To: EveningStar
Don't post stupid things anything on social media.

2 posted on 05/11/2015 11:13:06 AM PDT by envisio (I ain't here long... I'm out of napalm and .22 bullets.)
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To: envisio

Great advice that will go unheeded.


3 posted on 05/11/2015 11:16:53 AM PDT by Codeflier (Bush, Clinton, Bush, Obama - 4 democrat presidents in a row and counting...)
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To: EveningStar

different stories from him and her. either he greeted the kids, took their pic and said he was gonna send it to a 16 year old, or she made that part up. if that is true, this is no innocent mistake on her part.


4 posted on 05/11/2015 11:18:26 AM PDT by camle (keep an open mind and someone will fill it full of something for you)
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To: EveningStar

She is going to get sued for this. Her hypersensitive paranoia is going to cost her.


5 posted on 05/11/2015 11:19:51 AM PDT by Codeflier (Bush, Clinton, Bush, Obama - 4 democrat presidents in a row and counting...)
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To: envisio

You just ignored your own advice. This is, after all, a social media site.


6 posted on 05/11/2015 11:19:51 AM PDT by Robert DeLong (u)
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To: envisio

Parental paranoia.

Notice how he is a creep just for being a male a daring to speak to a kid.


7 posted on 05/11/2015 11:22:29 AM PDT by glasseye
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To: camle

From reading the story it seems pretty clear she is an idiot and I hope he sues her and she has charges pressed against her.

like that idiot Canadian women who reported some couch potato kid in the Midwest who said something off the cuff and ended up getting raped in jail, and I’m not sure if he is even out.


8 posted on 05/11/2015 11:24:45 AM PDT by dp0622
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To: EveningStar

From an episode of the show “Yes, Dear”:

“That’s the last time I agree to pick up diapers and Vaseline when I’m making a beer run! I’m pretty sure that clerk took down my license!”


9 posted on 05/11/2015 11:28:11 AM PDT by Rastus
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To: EveningStar
Wait'...this idiot women posted a picture of this guy calling him a creep because he simply spoke to her kids...?

Did he leer at them, touch them, start panting, break a sweat...?

Must be a libtard...

I hope he sues the crap out of her for defamation of character...

10 posted on 05/11/2015 11:29:06 AM PDT by Popman (Christ Alone: My Cornerstone...)
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To: Robert DeLong

We are anonymous...


11 posted on 05/11/2015 11:29:43 AM PDT by envisio (I ain't here long... I'm out of napalm and .22 bullets.)
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To: dp0622

I hadn’t heard about that. what happened?


12 posted on 05/11/2015 11:33:03 AM PDT by Shamrock498
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To: camle
different stories from him and her. either he greeted the kids, took their pic and said he was gonna send it to a 16 year old, or she made that part up. if that is true, this is no innocent mistake on her part.

Pretty simple to find out...look at his camera picture folder...and his send file.

I would think the police would have checked his phone to make sure...

My bet is she imagined this...

13 posted on 05/11/2015 11:34:08 AM PDT by Popman (Christ Alone: My Cornerstone...)
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To: Robert DeLong; EveningStar; Codeflier

“Don’t post stupid things “anything” on social media.”

“Great advice that will go unheeded.”

“You just ignored your own advice. This is, after all, a social media site.”

Stop the madness. Stop the absolutes.


14 posted on 05/11/2015 11:37:51 AM PDT by Slambat
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To: Shamrock498

http://dailycaller.com/2013/06/27/texas-teen-makes-violent-joke-during-video-game-is-jailed-for-months/

it was a Texas kid.. Stupid nosy woman from Canada DESTROYED this kid.

Father said in later article bad things were happening to im in prison. Guess what that means.

Don’t know what ever became of it.

If it were my son, she’d have to move and change her name.


15 posted on 05/11/2015 11:39:40 AM PDT by dp0622
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To: Codeflier

” Her hypersensitive paranoia is going to cost her.”

Not so hypersensitive when there is a war on masculinity that portrays ever man as being a pedophile/rapist-in-waiting. It’s reached the point where men say they won’t come anywhere near a kid lost in a store.


16 posted on 05/11/2015 11:44:44 AM PDT by sparklite2
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To: dp0622

wow....that is awful. im glad I grew up in a time before recording devices everywhere or i’d have been in a lot of trouble. you just cant make a stupid mistake nowadays. it’s kind of like joking about a bomb at an airport. you just cant do it or they throw the book at you.

I cant find anything on the internet about his outcome. the last update is over a year ago and he was still just facing a trial


17 posted on 05/11/2015 12:02:18 PM PDT by Shamrock498
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To: EveningStar

What a vile woman.

As a single male 40 year old I don’t DARE talk to kids. I don’t acknowledge them, don’t talk to them, don’t talk to their parents, don’t walk by parks, and don’t even look at them. And it’s a shame. I take my dog for a walk past a park with kids at a playground. Kids want to play with the dog but I have to just keep walking. Kids like talking to other people. (excluding nieces and nephews and the kids of close friends) All it takes to destroy my life, my business, and send me to jail is a woman like this making a wild claim. There is no trial by jury for men in cases like this as demonstrated by this woman and the many cases of men being accused of things that never happened but they are still destroyed. He innocently talked to some kids and she tries to destroy him because of her paranoia.

Sad. I would sue her for everything she’s worth, which I doubt is much but it will never happen.


18 posted on 05/11/2015 12:05:50 PM PDT by Organic Panic
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To: EveningStar

She claims SHE’S devastated? He should nuke/sue her from orbit....it’s the only way to kill this kind of thing.


19 posted on 05/11/2015 12:05:55 PM PDT by PhiloBedo (You gotta roll with the punches and get with what's real.)
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To: Organic Panic

In Costco last weekend, a young man (around 10 or so?) walking with his mother came up to me and offered me a piece of candy.

I, being both gracious and a candy lover, accepted his gift.

My wife opined that had the situation been reversed, the mother would have likely gone through the roof at me for being a pervert pedophile.

I can’t say that I disagreed with her.


20 posted on 05/11/2015 12:13:55 PM PDT by Quality_Not_Quantity (Liars use facts when the truth doesn't suit their purposes.)
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