Phaneuf, Cuthbert, and Lupul seeking damages from TSN & Tweeter

[DJones]

Originally Posted by Buster

So the Flames should be able to sue Sureless for posting a trade rumour?

Either you have freedom of speech, or you don't.

Libel and defamation suits restrict our liberty.

You don't want to live in a country where people can tell you what you are and are not able to put on Twitter.

Now you're just trolling. You really think those are the same thing?

By your warped logic advertisers should just be able to lie about their products as well.

[ToraToraTora]

Originally Posted by Buster

So the Flames should be able to sue Sureless for posting a trade rumour?

Either you have freedom of speech, or you don't.

Libel and defamation suits restrict our liberty.

You don't want to live in a country where people can tell you what you are and are not able to put on Twitter.

Ok, say you piss someone off and they start a massive social media and mainstream media campaign against you saying that you're a thief and a child molester. You get fired and never work again. Is that ok?

[Lonestar]

Originally Posted by Buster

Sure it is. That's the whole point.



People should be able to say that a player had sex with a donkey, if they want.



Freedom of speech is freedom of speech.

The teenage-minded individual posting an immature remark in search of some laughs can lean on freedom of speech if he/she wants.

A professional sports media outlet publicly airing the tweet and subsequently being sued is not question in freedom of speech.

Good for Lupul and the Phaneuf's for holding the TSN to a higher level of professionalism.




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[afc wimbledon]

Originally Posted by Buster

So the Flames should be able to sue Sureless for posting a trade rumour?

Either you have freedom of speech, or you don't.

Libel and defamation suits restrict our liberty.

You don't want to live in a country where people can tell you what you are and are not able to put on Twitter.

Do you want to live in a country where your neighbour can brand you a pedophile just because your cat ####s on his lawn and he wants to force you out of the area?

[Quincy Egg]

Originally Posted by dammage79

Justified. Burke set the precedent. Couple this along with the Curt Schilling fiasco, it's about time some accountability to the media and the nincompoops who post salacious comments be enacted.

What a joke. People like you who want to regulate the internet are literally the worst.

[Huntingwhale]

"Everyone needs to calm down. The account was hacked".

[DJones]

This is mind numbing to read haha.

Thanks Obama

[Locke]

Okay, lets get this straight:

You cannot just say whatever you want, whenever you want about whomever you want.

And that is not a violation of freedom of speech its social responsibility.

[northcrunk]

Originally Posted by dammage79

German born hockey player needed a nickname on draft day and this is what some doofus came up with on twitter. A term used by the Nazi's for the Jewish genocide. Utterly tasteless and made it to T.V. Yet, that is acceptable humor on the internet. I didn't like it as the kid had nothing to do with the past other than being born in Germany. It's just insulting on too many different levels.

To me this was way worse than the 'affair' rumor. We've heard stuff like this online for years about different players (even on this very site)

[greentree]

Not condoning the tweet but this lawsuit goes nowhere imho. TSN apologized, the stupid tweet wasn't up long. The tweeter might have tweeted from Sierra Leone for all anyone knows...he's not going to trial.

[Deelow]

Originally Posted by Ozy_Flame

I don't understand why they air fan tweets. They should be posting their hockey panel tweets, which create excitement that the panel can elaborate on.

They do it because if 10,000 people are tweeting using the hash tag, there's a good chance many of them will tune in longer hoping to see their tweet appear on the screen. It's a way of engaging the audience and rewarding the engagement, which leads to higher viewership.

[ignite]

Originally Posted by Aeneas

I remember seeing it during the broadcast and thinking how could they possibly put that on there.

Is it necessary to have all these twitter messages on the screen? Do they really add to the show? I find them annoying and usually quite useless. But i am also old.

Not related to the OP. Can someone please answer? Do sports networks, tv shows (ei; The Tonight Show) and recording artists receive advertising monies from the likes of Twitter, FB, etc. for the promotion of products via these media and music?
Just a question I've been too ______ to look up myself.
Thanks
Go Flames!!!

[Cleveland Steam Whistle]

Originally Posted by Buster

Sure it is. That's the whole point.

People should be able to say that a player had sex with a donkey, if they want.

Freedom of speech is freedom of speech.

No they shouldn't. You can say what you want to your friends about whatever, you should not publicly be able to make up lies about people and send that out to the entire world, that's never what freedom of speech was about. There has to be accountability on people for publishing false statements about people and things.

The general public often struggles with that now with the internet and social media, but if you want to share your thoughts with the world from behind the safety of you key board, you need to realize that it's a different thing than simply cracking a joke to your buddies in a bar. More responsibility is required when you make your thoughts public for the rest of the world to see and reference after the fact, and that's not a bad thing.

[dammage79]

Originally Posted by Quincy Egg

What a joke. People like you who want to regulate the internet are literally the worst.

Regulate the internet? No. Holding people accountable for using the internet to post private and personal information on others without proving the truth behind them is holding media outlets and posters responsible for their action is the proper course of action.

I'm not for censorship, but I am for respecting peoples personal lives. Especially those in the spot light. If they can back up their comments go for it. Or, if those people choose to make such things public then go for it. Slandering people with baseless information is wrong. And its not censorship to hold those accountable for releasing baseless information.

[sureLoss]

The tweeter's account is still active https://twitter.com/AdragnaA21

He put this up yesterday:

[jschick88]

Bruce Arthur ‏@bruce_arthur 1m
TSN apology:

[afc wimbledon]

Originally Posted by ignite

Not related to the OP. Can someone please answer? Do sports networks, tv shows (ei; The Tonight Show) and recording artists receive advertising monies from the likes of Twitter, FB, etc. for the promotion of products via these media and music?
Just a question I've been too ______ to look up myself.
Thanks
Go Flames!!!

Most media use twitter as a cheap (ie free) source of content, they don't pay twitter for it but neither does twitter pay them.

[BurningSteel]

I would post something in this thread but am scared I will be next to be sued.

[afc wimbledon]

Originally Posted by greentree

Not condoning the tweet but this lawsuit goes nowhere imho. TSN apologized, the stupid tweet wasn't up long. The tweeter might have tweeted from Sierra Leone for all anyone knows...he's not going to trial.

TSN will get out the chequebook on this one, how big will tend to depend Phanuef, they have no defence as a media organization, allowing unedited tweets or alternatively editing but not catching this tweet, either way they're going to have to pay.

[burn_baby_burn]

Some employee at TSN had to have put that up on purpose. Twitter is uncensored, TSN can't be dumb enough to just pull random tweets off Twitter with certain hash tags. Someone has to be reading these and pulling certain ones on the air.

Reading Anthony Adragna's Twitter feed. Looks like he was as shocked as anyone that his tweet made it onto the air.