UnemployedVillain
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Because it provides no context? It'd be like if I posted a thread called "Eating food considered deadly by scientists!" and then the thread was about someone eating food drenched in gasoline and cyanide
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Grand Jury charges Rivello in Eichenwald gif assault case
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Because it provides no context? It'd be like if I posted a thread called "Eating food considered deadly by scientists!" and then the thread was about someone eating food drenched in gasoline and cyanide
Poltergust
Member
I guess... but when I think of clickbait headlines I think of headlines that provide absolutely 0 indication of what the story is actually about. Like, "You Won't Believe What this Person Did!" and such.
SuperBanana
Banned
29 years old? Wow. What an absolute loser of society.
SomewhatGroovy
Banned
Fuck this guy so much.
Gordon Shumway
Banned
Fuck em..
SomedayTheFire
Member
title ain't clickbait, guys.
When I went to jury duty, the case I would have been selected for was some guy who beat up his girlfriend by punching her and they wanted to charge him with "assault with a deadly weapon." I think part of the reason I was dismissed is that I argued that the term was essentially meaningless because it encompassed any and all kinds of assualt.
Omegasquash
Member
There's not much to do in Salisbury, I guess. But enough bashing my old stomping grounds.
This guy is a weapon's grade jerk for doing this, and I hope he's ashamed of himself and doesn't walk away from this with a slap on the wrist.
Good.
It's a brave new world out there. But honestly, it's not that outlandish, it's just the first of it's kind. It's no different than someone using peanut dust in a recipe when trying to kill someone they actively know has a severe peanut allergy.
It's a brave new world out there. But honestly, it's not that outlandish, it's just the first of it's kind. It's no different than someone using peanut dust in a recipe when trying to kill someone they actively know has a severe peanut allergy.
Now this would be the time for some legendary American justice. Those for-profit labor prisons don't fund themselves.
FreeMufasa
Junior Member
Good.
And why are people on this board so uppity about thread titles? Like shit, get over it
And why are people on this board so uppity about thread titles? Like shit, get over it
RipperGrim
Member
They are sociopaths, no doubt about it. The internet has made it very easy for sociopaths to get organised in ways that are unprecedented and it's the failure of the people in charge of all the social media networks that are to blame.
I am glad that this time an actual conviction has been made but I find it strange that this is where the line is drawn when swatting has been around for years now. Both are intents to harm.
UnemployedVillain
Member
We can only hope so. Now we just need to get something down about swatters as well
andythinkpad
Member
I can't tell what is OP's angle.
Snowman Prophet of Doom
Member
Fuck this guy. My brother-in-law has epilepsy (though, thankfully, not of the photosensitive variety), I've seen the deleterious toll in takes, and anybody who thinks it's "funny" to make someone have one can rot in the slammer for all I care.
TheCochese
Banned
Pretty premeditated. Fuck him.
gutterboy44
Member
Fucking A right. Need to see more cases like this. The internet isn't some magical realm. It is real people connecting with real consequences. The intermediary of a few routers and switches doesn't remove the accountability of your actions.
It's amazing that he went through all that effort to hide his identity, then used an iCloud account that had a picture of his fucking driver's license.
Yup. Hopefully this doesn't open the door for similar types of assault/attempted murder (the fact that the attacker was successful). But maybe him being brought to justice with deter others.
UristMcDwarf
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Pleased with the charge, screw this guy.
I am glad that the justice system is finally realizing that the internet is a real place full of real people. I hope that this comes as a shock to the "trolls" online, this is the real world and there are real consequences.
I am glad that the justice system is finally realizing that the internet is a real place full of real people. I hope that this comes as a shock to the "trolls" online, this is the real world and there are real consequences.
Be worth watching this case carefully. Grand Juries have been known to be technophobes or illiterati when it comes to this stuff.
He has shown:
Malice
Planning
Intent
Lack of remorse
AND a form of complete confession -
But I'd still be nervous they decide it was just keks/lulz* and he never thought it would "work."
* Obscure latin legal terms.
He has shown:
Malice
Planning
Intent
Lack of remorse
AND a form of complete confession -
But I'd still be nervous they decide it was just keks/lulz* and he never thought it would "work."
* Obscure latin legal terms.
adamsappel
Member
He probably did it when he grew the beard, so he could show that he had the license before that. Personally, I just say, "I grew a beard."
It's pretty impressive.
I wonder how this slipped his mind considering how many hoops he jumped through to conceal his identity. Maybe he used it to download the twitter app from the App Store?
thechristoph
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That's all most people read.
It's kind of amazing to think that an animated gif could be used as a murder weapon. I hope this guy rots; the attitude of "lol its just trolling the internet" needs to go away. The internet is as "real life" as face to face communication and there need to be serious consequences for internet assault.
Ray Wonder
Founder of the Wounded Tagless Children
Why is that image so fuckin hard to look at holy shit
I don't think that's been confirmed one way or another. The Rivello people just said that the FBI has that information. I guess it's up to the FBI at this point.
I watched it unfold after Kurt's wife took over his account to let everyone know what happened and assure he was okay, but hurt.
They (meaning, alt-right gamergate types) just sent the image over and over, laughing at the possibility of causing a life ending seizure in a man. A lot of anti-semitic language as well, as you can imagine. The guy who sent it originally was not shy about what he'd done (at least on Twitter) but did seem to believe that Kurt was faking it based on his stream in the hours after it happened.
The absolute fucked up thing about it is that the guy wasn't banned from Twitter afterwards and was left to resend the image over and over again.
Twitter is 100% culpable in this if you ask me.
This is a good comparison. How you do it doesn't matter. The point is that this guy deliberately carried out an attempt to kill someone.
excelsiorlef
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The grand jury returned an indictment already on Assault with a Deadly Weapon (he was already arrested on Federal cyber stalking charges last week)... did you mean regular juries?
Because yeah the grand jury already did its job.
I was really talking baout potential Verdicts.
I don't think he understands the purpose of a burner phone.
Can someone explain the license thing? Why would you need to have a picture like that on your phone?
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