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I never even heard of this guy until I was in a bar in Phoenix Arizona and listening to a flight attendant tell the story about how her plane was raided by SWAT
by yebyen 8y ago
I never even heard of this guy until I was in a bar in Phoenix Arizona and listening to a flight attendant tell the story about how her plane was raided by SWAT armed response earlier that day, because of him. It looks like that was April 28 last year.
She was absolutely terrified and all of the passengers were asked to keep their window covers shut while armed personnel surrounded the plane and prepared to board from the rear entrance and take him out of there. It's a predictable consequence of him going places and streaming. He'll even say things like "I hope nobody figures out what plane I'm on and calls in a bomb threat" but honestly what actual law is being violated and by whom in this situation?
I mean I can personally see he knows he has antagonists and he is specifically egging them on, and he is profiting from it, but I don't know the specific actual law that he'd be breaking in this case, as much as I'd like for there to be one. Ruining dozens of peoples' day just isn't a violation of the law in and of itself.
- pjc50 8y agoTerrorism "conspiracy" charges can be pretty wide-ranging. It sounds like that incident alone would have incurred tens of thousands of dollars of costs for both law enforcement and the airline.
- drb91 8y agoActually, terrorism is really not a bad description of trolling, if hyperbolic. But these pranks seem to go beyond trolling, too.
- yebyen 8y agoYes but how do you prosecute someone because a bomb threat was called in against them? Which part of what he was doing should he not be doing? It was all external parties that caused the kerfuffle. He's obviously a successful broadcaster, and he's making money at it without himself breaking the law, so you can't tell him not to do that anymore. (That's a prior restraint, no?) I agree that it's problematic and it's costing money, but if those trolls that called in the bomb threats cause his show to be closed, isn't that basically the end of free speech? The fraudulent reporting caller should be prosecuted, sure. Anyone can call in a SWAT raid on anyone else. I myself haven't watched the show, so I don't know to what extent a conspiracy charge would stick, but ... If I go somewhere and start a Live Vlog, and someone watching figures out where I am and manages to put the police onto my camera, "for the lulz," and that's the whole story, then why should my "broadcasting license" be revoked? Never mind no such license is required, just hypothetically.
- Mirioron 8y agoIf I remember correctly, he wasn't even streaming during the whole thing. The fans simply pieced it together by things like departure times and roughly where he's going etc.
- kss238 8y agoA conspiracy requires that two or more people agree to commit a crime. How would this apply to Ice?