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Time to prosecute the Free Republic vandal outright. (Vanity)
today | By Lazamataz

Posted on 05/09/2005 5:54:33 AM PDT by Lazamataz

There is an internet vandal who defaces Free Republic with very gross pictures (homosexual sex and stuff from rotton.com) as well as posting "ALL YOU F***** N*****S & JEWS SHOULD BE LYNCHED".

He pings a variety of people to his post, ensuring that the trash is still in their My Posts lists.

To me, this isn't the milder form of harassment that Eschoir engaged in so many years ago. The very worst he would do is ask if you ever committed sodomy, and he once used the screen name "Paula Jones Tw*t". This is mild.

What this sick piece of work is doing is much more egregious. I believe it crosses the line into criminal defacement and restraint of trade. Are there any Free Republic lawyers (especially prosecutors) who can address this issue, and are there any private detectives with internet savvy that will help track the identity of this person down?


TOPICS: Free Republic; Unclassified
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To: babyface00
GMTA!

See my 257.

281 posted on 05/09/2005 6:48:37 AM PDT by Petronski (Pope Benedict XVI: A German Shepherd on the Throne of Peter)
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To: mhking
I may be naive, but I cannot believe any jury could be cajoled into believing that post was political in content. Thats why the banning is beyond question. But I don't think he did anything illegal, because he was an authorized user at the time he posted them (even though he was abusing those privileges), and because the content was inherently political.

The only thing I think we could hang our hat on was that "all n-----rs and jews" was directed specifically to appropriate minorities. (Which is odd - that indicates a fair amount of knowledge of the players here.)

282 posted on 05/09/2005 6:48:37 AM PDT by jude24 ("Stupid" isn't illegal - but it should be.)
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To: Valin

OK, gotcha. :-)

The photos were simply dreadful.


283 posted on 05/09/2005 6:48:49 AM PDT by Velveeta
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To: sageb1
Has Jim Robinson given us any of his thoughts on this? I'm just wondering.

I've never had a conversation about this with Jim, or the Mods. Not to say that he hasn't discussed this, just not with me.


284 posted on 05/09/2005 6:48:53 AM PDT by rdb3 (To the world, you're one person. To one person, you may be the world.)
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To: Lazamataz

Just my 2 cents. There are myriad criminal and civil statutes that apply to one or more of this cretin's acts. Prosecuting would be the easy part. Finding him, well, the FReeper who can pull that off will go into the FReeper Hall of Fame next to Buckhead.


285 posted on 05/09/2005 6:48:53 AM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: jude24
I wonder if we could get him for terroristic threats.

You must be in the south. Only southern states call those "terroristic threats". :o)

286 posted on 05/09/2005 6:48:53 AM PDT by Lazamataz (Not Elected Pope Since 4/19/2005.)
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To: Lazamataz
I often post (mildly) offensive stuff that they have to clean up

You can say that again... ;)

287 posted on 05/09/2005 6:49:01 AM PDT by mhking ("Today, we're gonna do things the RIGHT way...")
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To: Lazamataz

bump


288 posted on 05/09/2005 6:49:26 AM PDT by Total Package (TOLEDO, OHIO THE BLUE PIMPLE IN A SEA OF RED!)
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To: Larry Lucido; Buckhead
Finding him, well, the FReeper who can pull that off will go into the FReeper Hall of Fame next to Buckhead.

Imagine that. Me and Buckhead in the same restaurant Hall of Fame. :o)

289 posted on 05/09/2005 6:49:52 AM PDT by Lazamataz (Not Elected Pope Since 4/19/2005.)
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To: Lazamataz

Bump


290 posted on 05/09/2005 6:50:02 AM PDT by BulletBobCo
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To: Lazamataz
You must be in the south. Only southern states call those "terroristic threats". :o)

I was looking at the Georgia Code, but I'm a law student in Buffalo.

291 posted on 05/09/2005 6:50:08 AM PDT by jude24 ("Stupid" isn't illegal - but it should be.)
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To: babyface00

It's up to JimRob, but I like the way you're heading...


292 posted on 05/09/2005 6:50:15 AM PDT by gridlock (ELIMINATE PERVERSE INCENTIVES)
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To: Brett66
"Maybe a vote button could be put on posts and if a certain number of no votes were given, then it would be deleted. You could even weigh the voting process to favor those with the oldest sign up dates."

Unfortunately, I think we need to just be watchful and hope the moderator will get here quickly. Moderators are human, too.

293 posted on 05/09/2005 6:50:22 AM PDT by sageb1
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To: Lazamataz
I'm not Mod material

Me neither.

294 posted on 05/09/2005 6:50:24 AM PDT by Admin Moderator
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To: Lazamataz
I often post (mildly) offensive stuff

The Hell you say. :o)

295 posted on 05/09/2005 6:50:32 AM PDT by TheBigB (Can we shave some fuzz off these woofers?)
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To: Strategerist
That's about all that can be done. I'm not a lawyer but I'm 99.99999% sure that anything attempted legally would be laughed out of court.

Not necessarily -- at least not on a civil level. I'm sure that with the lower standard of proof necessary in a civil litigation, that something could be done there; now whether anyone has the fortitude to move that way is another question entirely.

296 posted on 05/09/2005 6:50:32 AM PDT by mhking ("Today, we're gonna do things the RIGHT way...")
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To: mhking
You can say that again... ;)

Yes, but I am a good witch, not a bad witch.

And the old saying is that a DA can get a Grand Jury to indict a ham sand witch.

297 posted on 05/09/2005 6:50:53 AM PDT by Lazamataz (Not Elected Pope Since 4/19/2005.)
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To: Larry Lucido
Prosecuting would be the easy part

Other than outright hacking which was not done in this case, the ONLY successful "prosecutions" I'm aware of remotely resembling this situation are a few cases where someone defamed a (profit-making) company on bulletin boards thus reducing their stock price, etc; they were civil cases and the companies were able to show financial losses because of the postings, etc.

298 posted on 05/09/2005 6:51:04 AM PDT by Strategerist
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To: babyface00
Seems like it.

It must be a GREAT idea if both you AND I thought of it. LOL

299 posted on 05/09/2005 6:51:21 AM PDT by Petronski (Pope Benedict XVI: A German Shepherd on the Throne of Peter)
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To: mhking

Sheesh. That figures. Not only a racist a-hole, but one with no imagination as well. Although maybe we can be thankful for that.


300 posted on 05/09/2005 6:51:25 AM PDT by TheBigB (Can we shave some fuzz off these woofers?)
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