He frequency of DIRAs makes it apparent that old laws concerning defamation need reforming to take account of the pernicious effects of allowing Internet mobs to run riot, placing meaningful limits on what is fair play in the realm of social media. The use of the word "zombies" is always a signifier of serious and credible legal analysis. The purpose of Rapeutation - aside from scrawled-on-the-asylum-wall poetry and disturbing videos - is to advocate for a new, rather ill-defined cause of action to address something called "Distributed Internet Reputation Attack":ĭistributed Internet Reputation Attack (DIRA): noun, an attack against the reputation of an individual that harnesses the distributed efforts of large numbers of both human and digital Internet zombies to proliferate unmanageable quantities of disparaging information in an effort to alter the conduct of the individual or entity. Because being ridiculed based on your bad behavior is equivalent to sexual assault, you know. Carreon has started a website called Rapeutation. The Law Should Be What I Say It Is: Stinging from his recent infamy, Mr. Carreon needs to live with himself, I say we let him cherish it. Inman photographed was technically his own funds, not the funds he raised and forwarded to worthy charities. Or perhaps Carreon believes he achieved victory because the cash Mr. This is roughly like crowing that you dominated the captain of the firing squad by making him offer you a blindfold and a cigarette before shooting you. But Judge Chen did so in the context of requesting the basis he needed to deny Carreon's application for a temporary restraining order as moot. Inman to submit proof that he had written checks to the two charities. Carreon apparently believes he prevailed because Judge Chen asked Mr. The triumph of good over evil usually is.įorget It, He's Rolling: Charles Carreon, having dismissed his suit against Matt Inman, IndieGoGo, and two national charities, has now declared victory. In This Case It Says "F.U.": Matt Inman has, as promised, posted pictures of the money he raised for charity. I'm at an undisclosed location vacationing with the family, so I will by necessity be brief.
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On September 22nd, 2015, FunnyJunk user magmamax posted a series of comics depicting a story in which the father discovers that his son committed suicide (shown below).It's time for some updates, boys and girls. While the original post was subsequently removed, reblogs indicate it obtained more than 2,600 notes over the next six months. On September 19th, Tumblr user eva-420 reblogged a variation in which the son appears to have merged with his machine (below). On August 15th, Redditor SheZowRaisedByWolves posted the comic to the /r/justneckbeardthings subreddit, where it garnered upwards of 950 votes (96% upvoted) and 60 comments prior to being archived.
Within two years, the post gained over 1,600 likes and 80 comments. On March 21st, 2014, FunnyJunk user Aejax submitted the comic in the comic section of a post with the caption "This is the future you chose." On January 29th, 2015, MemeCenter user bakoahmed submitted an animated GIF of various people viewing virtual reality pornography for the first time placed above the "Are Ya Winning Son?" comic (shown below).