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I do not know how you blame Keith Olbermann here. You published a threat to the President of the US. It was not a credible threat but people reading your poll d
by hristov 15y ago
I do not know how you blame Keith Olbermann here. You published a threat to the President of the US. It was not a credible threat but people reading your poll do not know that. They do not know whether the poll was started by a 14 year old girl or a neo-nazi group.
Furthermore, you had a very glib comment where you blamed things on people being upset over the poll instead of taking responsibility for the poll. It is not unreasonable for Americans to be upset at death threats to the President. Again, they did not know at the time that the death threat was not credible. So you blaming people for being upset was a stupid thing to say and Olbermann was completely justified in calling you an idiot.
(I am assuming here that Olbermann quoted you accurately, as he did quote a published source and you did not complain about being misquoted)
- SirensOfTitan 15y agoWhat? If the people who publish user generated content (e.g. Google, Facebook, etc) are responsible for what their users say, then the internet as we know it is over. There are thousands of comments on Reddit, Facebook, et. al. that could be considered threatening or libelous defamation of character, but Reddit is not responsible for that. If they were, the very fabric of free speech on the internet would decay, as any user made comment could bring on a lawsuit.
- hristov 15y agoI agree with that but that does not excuse those comments. If the original poster would have explained or at least made it clear that other people publish the polls automatically and that they are not individually vetted and that there is a complaint mechanism, that would have sounded better. But again blaming people for being upset is the wrong thing to say here and fully deserves being called an idiot.
- motoford 15y agoI think it was pretty obvious from the article that the poll content is generated by the users, not the developers. It's pretty much stated or alluded to in every paragraph.
- hristov 15y agoThat is true but that is not the relevant article here. KO responded to some Politico interview the original poster did.
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- jfarmer 15y agoHeh. You should read the Q&A I did on DailyKos that Monday evening. http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/09/28/787366/-Facts-from-the-developer-of-the-Facebook-Poll-Application http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/09/28/787366/-Facts-from-... If you're ever in San Francisco, look me up. I'll buy you a drink and you can call me an idiot as much as you'd like. ;) jesse@20bits.com
- hristov 15y agoI appreciate the drink offer. Your DailyKos Q&A looks perfectly fine, but KO was responding to something completely different -- something you said to Politico. And if he quoted correctly (and Politico quoted you correctly) he may have been justified in what he said about you. But I have to note that I do not think you are an idiot. I am sure that it is very easy to get excited and start going off tangents and get misinterpreted when you are suddenly the focus of media attention. So please do not take any offense from anything I said. I just hope you realize that what the statement quoted by KO was not a nice thing to say.
- jfarmer 15y agoWell, drinks are still on me, your vaguely condescending commentary notwithstanding. :P