Covington High School Issue

[Belsnickel]

(01-25-2019, 12:44 PM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: All of this is absolutely true for media outlets.  It's almost impossible to sue them for reporting something inaccurately.  As you and Bel state, you have to be able to prove they did so intentionally.  Less certain is suing the people who publicly called for direct action against these kids.  Whether it be calls for doxing them or calls to injure them.  I'm not even remotely expert in civil law, but I have to wonder if it's possible to prove severe emotional distress based on all the threats these kids received.  Public calls by celebrities or the blue checkmark crowd, to dox or injure these kids could be argued as fueling these threats.  I think we can say it's not as cut and dry with individuals as it is with media outlets.

I will say it would be delicious if Kathy Griffin had to shell out a bunch of cash to these kids.

Okay, yeah, that one would be easier and I would have zero problems. She did call for people to dox them, which is something I had forgotten about.

I am curious about the other individuals, though, did they outright call for actions against the kids? That is what it would take. If they did, then I'm all in favor of them getting their pants sued off of them because even though I still consider them to be snot-nosed little jerks, I don't condone the actions taken against them.